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Byzantium/Modernism : The Byzantine As Method in Modernity.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Visualising the Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (395 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004300019
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Byzantium/ModernismDDC classification:
  • 700.1/08
LOC classification:
  • BH221.B99 .B99 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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