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Byzantium/Modernism : The Byzantine As Method in Modernity.

Betancourt, Roland.

Byzantium/Modernism : The Byzantine As Method in Modernity. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (395 pages) - Visualising the Middle Ages Series ; v.12 . - Visualising the Middle Ages Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: A Mosaic Approach -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Explanation of the Cover -- part 1 -- Byzantium and Modernism -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Introduction: Byzantium and Modernism -- Maria Taroutina -- Section 1 -- The Avant-Gardes and Their Counter Movements -- Chapter 1 -- Modernism's Byzantium Byzantium's Modernism -- Robert S. Nelson -- Chapter 2 -- Kazimir Malevich and the Liturgical Tradition of Eastern Christianity -- Myroslava M. Mudrak -- Section 2 -- Modernism's Precursors -- Chapter 3 -- Arts and Crafts and the 'Byzantine': The Greek Connection -- Dimitra Kotoula -- Chapter 4 -- Archaeology of Decadence: Uncovering Byzantium in Victorien Sardou's Theodora -- Elena Boeck -- Section 3 -- Byzantine Tactics, Modernist Strategies in Architectural Discourse -- Chapter 5 -- Abstraction's Economy: Hagia Sophia in the Imaginary of Modern Architecture -- Tulay Atak -- Chapter 6 -- Byzantine Architecture: A Moving Target? -- Robert Ousterhout -- part 2 -- The Slash as Method -- Introduction: The Slash as Method -- Roland Betancourt -- Section 4 -- Reading across Time: Modern Subjects, Byzantine Objects -- Chapter 7 -- Byzantium and the Modernist Subject: The Case of Autobiographical Literature -- Stratis Papaioannou -- Chapter 8 -- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish: Byzantine Visual Structures in the Light of Twentieth-Century Practice and Theory -- Anthony Cutler -- Section 5 -- Byzantine New Media: The Photographic and Filmic Icon -- Chapter 9 -- Iconicity of the Photographic Image: Theodore of Stoudios and André Bazin -- Devin Singh -- Chapter 10 -- Tarkovsky: Embodying the Screen -- Marie-José Mondzain -- Section 6 -- Presence, Representation, and the Gaze: The Byzantine at the Ends of Modernity -- Chapter 11. 'Аction-Paradise' and 'Readymade Reliquaries': Eccentric Histories in/of Recent Russian Art -- Jane A. Sharp -- Chapter 12 -- Lacan and Byzantine Art: In the Beginning was the Image -- Rico Franses -- Chapter 13 -- Beyond Representation/The Gift of Sight -- Charles Barber -- CODA -- Chapter 14 -- We Have Never been Byzantine: On Analogy -- Glenn Peers -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Byzantium/Modernism examines the cross-temporal interchange between Byzantium and modernism and articulates how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture.

9789004300019


Modernism (Aesthetics).
Aesthetics, Byzantine.


Electronic books.

BH221.B99 .B99 2015

700.1/08

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