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Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity - Orthodox Theology and the Aesthetics of the Christian Image (Paperback)
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Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity - Orthodox Theology and the Aesthetics of the Christian Image (Paperback)
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Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical,
interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and
philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this
within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and
aesthetic implications of Orthodox ascetic and mystical theology.
It finds Modernist interest in the aesthetic peculiarity of icons
significant, and essential for re-evaluating their relationship to
non-representational art. Drawing on classical Greek art criticism,
Byzantine ekphraseis and hymnography, and the theologies of St.
Maximus the Confessor, St. Symeon the New Theologian and St.
Gregory Palamas, the author argues that the ancient Greek concept
of enargeia best conveys the expression of theophany and theosis in
art. The qualities that define enargeia - inherent liveliness,
expressive autonomy and self-subsisting form - are identified in
exemplary Greek and Russian icons and considered in the context of
the hesychastic theology that lies at the heart of Orthodox
Christianity. An Orthodox aesthetics is thus outlined that
recognizes the transcendent being of art and is open to dialogue
with diverse pictorial and iconographic traditions. An examination
of Ch'an (Zen) art theory and a comparison of icons with paintings
by Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Marc Chagall,
and by Japanese artists influenced by Zen Buddhism, reveal
intriguing points of convergence and difference. The reader will
find in these pages reasons to reconcile Modernism with the
Christian image and Orthodox tradition with creative form in art.
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