In the name of the image : figurative representation in Islamic and Christian cultures

In the name of the image : figurative representation in Islamic and Christian cultures /

In the Name of the Image' primarily attempts to direct attention to the history of both Islamic and Christian cultures, tracing and analyzing their ways of dealing with images. Even though both Christianity and Islam are familiar with religious bans on images, pictures, portraits, and other wor...

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Other Authors: Langer, Axel (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2022]
Subjects:
Religious art > Exhibitions.
Figurative art > Exhibitions.
Christian art and symbolism > Exhibitions.
Islamic art and symbolism > Exhibitions.
Art and religion > Exhibitions.
Idols and images > Worship > Exhibitions.
Figurative art > Religious aspects > Exhibitions.
Christian art and symbolism.
Figurative art.
Islamic art and symbolism.
Religious art.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Between belief in images and a ban on images: introductory thoughts on the exhibition / Axel Langer
  • Catalogue. Images and religious spaces ; Writing as the "direct approach to the most sacred" ; Symbols and signs as indications of the sacred ; Relics: the presence of the sacred ; Idolatry and iconoclasm ; Similar erasure: Different interpretations ; Coins: Bearers of ideas, demonstrations of power, and proofs of faith ; Three-dimensional images: A special case ; In the face of the prophets ; Visualizing the trinity ; Individual devotion: private liturgy or transgression? ; Ruler, sufferer, hero, family man ; A bible for the poor? ; The lives of the prophets: Like contents, like visual rhetoric ; Courtly self-representation I: the enduring life of antiquity ; Courtly self-representation II: Poetry as a source of iconography ; Portrait of the ruler in Persia: From private image to propaganda ; Portraits of rulers in the Ottoman Empire: West-East exchange and dynastic seriality ; Portraits of rulers in the Mughal Empire: Similarities and differences to Elizabethan miniature portraits ; Royal self-representation under the Mamluks
  • God loves beauty: on portraying the unportrayable in Islam / Ahmad Milad Karimi
  • "My eyes have seen your salvation": the image and the veneration of images in Catholicism / René Schurte
  • Images, coins, statues: iconoclasm and the question of representation in Byzantium / Christophe Erismann
  • Islam and image: paradoxical histories / Finbarr Barry Flood
  • Engines of prophecy: materializing Muhammad in the modern Islamic world / Christiane Gruber
  • The mandylion and the revocation of Old Testament prohibition of images in Christianity / Daniel Spanke
  • Writing about beauty: the hilye of Muhammad and visualization through script / Tobias Heinzelmann
  • Speaking bones and narrative pictures: aniconism versus visual narratives on small tabernacles in late-medieval Christian art / Beate Fricke
  • The profane visual worlds of the Middle Ages in Latin Western Europe / Dieter Blume
  • Portraits of Ottoman sultans between East and West / Hans Georg Majer
  • Persian and Mughal portrait miniatures: types or true likenesses? / Friederike Weis
  • Images and words in Mamluk metalwork (1250-1517) / Doris Behrens-Abouseif.

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