Experiencing the Last Judgement - Niamh Bhalla

Experiencing the Last Judgement

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Buch | Hardcover
382 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-89850-2 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Experiencing the Last Judgement moves beyond a purely didactic understanding of the Byzantine image of the Last Judgement, as a visual eschatological text to be ‘read’ and learned from, and proposes instead an appreciation of each unique image as a dynamic site to be experienced.
Experiencing the Last Judgement opens up new ways of understanding a Byzantine image type that has hitherto been considered largely uniform in its manifestations and to a great extent frightening, coercive and paralysing. It moves beyond a purely didactic understanding of the Byzantine image of the Last Judgement, as a visual eschatological text to be ‘read’ and learned from, and proposes instead an appreciation of each unique image as a dynamic site to be experienced. Paintings, icons and mosaics from the tenth to the fourteenth century, from inside and outside of the Byzantine Empire, are placed within their specific socio-historical milieus, their immediate decorative programmes and their architectural contexts to demonstrate that each unique image constituted a carefully orchestrated and immersive experience of judgement. Each case study outlines the differences that exist in reality between these images that are often subsumed under one iconographic label, making a case against condensing dynamic, lived images into apparently static pictorial ‘types’. Images of the Last Judgement needed the body, mind and memory of the viewer for the creation of meaning, and so the experience of these images was unavoidably spatial, gendered, corporeal, mnemonic, emotional, rhetorical and most often liturgical. Unpacking Byzantine images of judgement in light of these various facets of experience for the first time helps to elucidate the interaction of past individuals with the image, and the ways in which such encounters were intended to benefit the communities that made and lived alongside them.

Niamh Bhalla is Course Leader and Lecturer in Art History at New College of the Humanities, Northeastern University in London. She completed her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, and has previously lectured and worked on research projects at The Courtauld and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her research focuses on the social agency of late-classical and Byzantine imagery. She explores themes such as space, memory, the body, gender and rhetoric in relation to the experience of visual imagery.

1. Towards an Alternative ‘Reading’ of the Last Judgement 2. The Deconstruction of Time and Space: Immersive Experiences of Judgement: The Chora Parekklesion 3. Use, Agency and the Formulation of the Image: Yılanlı Kilise 4. Experiencing the ‘Byzantine’ Last Judgement in the Latin West: Torcello 5. The Mnemonic Experience of Judgement: The Sinai Hexaptych 6. The Embodied Experience of Judgement: Mavriotissa Monastery 7. The Gendered Experience of Heaven and Hell: Yılanlı Kilise and the Kokkinobaphos Manuscripts 8. The Rhetoric of Judgement: A Twelfth-century Icon from Mount Sinai

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Byzantine Cultural History
Zusatzinfo 53 Halftones, color; 53 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-367-89850-0 / 0367898500
ISBN-13 978-0-367-89850-2 / 9780367898502
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