1st Edition

Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art The Transcultural Icon

By C.A. Tsakiridou Copyright 2019
    252 Pages
    by Routledge

    242 Pages
    by Routledge



    Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the King of Glory (Man of Sorrows). This icon of the dead-living Christ originated in Byzantium, migrated west, and was promoted in the New World by Franciscan and Dominican missions. Themes include tensions between Byzantine and Latin spiritualities of penance and salvation, the participation of the body and gender in deification, and the theological plasticity of the Christian imaginary. Primitivist tendencies in Christian eschatology and modernism place avant-garde interest in New Mexican santos and Greek icons in tradition.

    List of Figures



    Preface



    Chapter 1: Introduction



    Chapter 2: Tradition and Iconographic Types



    Chapter 3: Iconicity and Eschatology



    Chapter 4: Ascetics in Prison



    Chapter 5: Sinaitic and Franciscan Theophanies



    Chapter 6: Byzantine Encounters with the Dead Christ



    Chapter 7: The Penitential Imagination



    Chapter 8: The King of Glory in Italy



    Chapter 9: Missionary Masses



    Chapter 10: The Mystical Colony



    Chapter 11: New Mexican Acheiropoietai



    Chapter 12: The Greek Icon



    Epilogue



    Bibliography

    Biography



    C.A. Tsakiridou is Professor in the Philosophy Department, La Salle University. She specializes in the aesthetics of the visual arts, metaphysics, and Orthodox theology.