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Book SynopsisByzantium/Modernism features contributions by fourteen international scholars and brings together a diverse range of interdisciplinary essays on art, architecture, theatre, film, literature, and philosophy, which examine how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture. Particular attention is given to intercultural dialogues between the former dominions of the Byzantine Empire, with a special focus on Greece, Turkey, and Russia, and the artistic production of Western Europe and America. Together, these essays invite the reader to think critically and theoretically about the dialogic interchange between Byzantium and modernism and to consider this cross-temporal encounter as an ongoing and historically deep narrative, rather than an ephemeral or localized trend. Contributors are Tulay Atak, Charles Barber, Elena Boeck, Anthony Cutler, Rico Franses, Dimitra Kotoula, Marie-José Mondzain, Myroslava M. Mudrak, Robert S. Nelson, Robert Ousterhout, Stratis Papaioannou, Glenn Peers, Jane A. Sharp and Devin Singh.
Trade Review"[This book] offer[s] a multi-disciplinary view of subjects as varied as historiography, art history, architecture, stage design, psychoanalytic thought and theology." Joseph Masheck and Edmund Ryder, Art and Christianity, No. 88, Winter 2016 '' A remarkable and remarkably wide-ranging collection, then, and one that will provide at least some food for thought for anyone with an interest in the continuing contemporary cultural dialogue with Byzantium. In addition, it provides an essential springboard for further reflection on the themes it addresses, and its methdological breadth is encouraging, if at times disconcerting; but to be disconcerted is often valuable for stimulating thought, and that is one objective that this book accomplishes triumphantly''. Ivan Moody, in Journal of International Society for Orthodox Music vol.2 (2016).
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments IX Preface XI List of Illustrations XV List of Contributors XIX Explanation of the Cover XXIII Part 1 Byzantium and Modernism Introduction: Byzantium and Modernism 1 Maria Taroutina Section 1 The Avant-Gardes and Their Counter Movements 1 Modernism’s Byzantium Byzantium’s Modernism 15 Robert S. Nelson 2 Kazimir Malevich and the Liturgical Tradition of Eastern Christianity 37 Myroslava M. Mudrak Section 2 Modernism’s Precursors 3 Arts and Crafts and the ‘Byzantine’: The Greek Connection 75 Dimitra Kotoula 4 Archaeology of Decadence: Uncovering Byzantium in Victorien Sardou’s Theodora 102 Elena N. Boeck Section 3 Byzantine Tactics, Modernist Strategies in Architectural Discourse 5 Abstraction’s Economy: Hagia Sophia in the Imaginary of Modern Architecture 135 Tulay Atak 6 Byzantine Architecture: A Moving Target? 163 Robert Ousterhout Part 2 The Slash as Method Introduction: The Slash as Method 179 Roland Betancourt Section 4 Reading across Time: Modern Subjects, Byzantine Objects 7 Byzantium and the Modernist Subject: The Case of Autobiographical Literature 195 Stratis Papaioannou 8 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish: Byzantine Visual Structures in the Light of Twentieth-Century Practice and Theory 212 Anthony Cutler Section 5 Byzantine New Media: The Photographic and Filmic Icon 9 Iconicity of the Photographic Image: Theodore of Stoudios and Andre Bazin 237 Devin Singh 10 Tarkovsky: Embodying the Screen 254 Marie-José Mondzain Section 6 Presence, Representation, and the Gaze: The Byzantine at the Ends of Modernity 11 ‘Action-Paradise’ and ‘Readymade Reliquaries’: Eccentric Histories in/ of Recent Russian Art 271 Jane A. Sharp 12 Lacan and Byzantine Art: In the Beginning was the Image 311 Rico Franses 13 Beyond Representation/The Gift of Sight 330 Charles Barber CODA 14 We Have Never been Byzantine: On Analogy 349 Glenn Peers Select Bibliography 361 Index 367
