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Representation in religion : studies in honor of Moshe Barasch / edited by Jan Assmann and Albert I. Baumgarten.

Contributor(s): Assmann, Jan | Baumgarten, Albert I
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in the history of religions: 89.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2001Description: xvii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004119396 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Symbolism | History -- Religious aspects | Icons | Barasch, MosheDDC classification: 291.3/7 LOC classification: BL603 | .R46 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The idol in the icon: some ambiguities / M. Barasch -- Two kinds of representation in Greek religious art / M. Finkelberg -- The truth of images: Cicero and Varro on image worship / H. Cancik and H. Cancik-Lindemaier -- Portraits, likenesses and looking glasses: some literary and philosophical reflections on representation and art in medieval India / P. Granoff -- Indian image-worship and its discontents / R.H. Davis -- The 'iconic' and 'aniconic' Buddha visualization in medieval Chinese Buddhism / K. Shinohara -- Jewish artists and the representation of God / H. Künzl -- Jewish art and 'iconoclasm': the case of Sepphoris / B. Kühnel -- Literarische und visuelle Hermeneutik oder die Unmöglichkeit der Ikone Gottes / A.R.E. Agus -- Torah: between presence and representation of the divine in Jewish mysticism / M. Idel -- Representations of the Jewish body in modern times: forms of hero worship / R.I. Cohen -- Monumental mockery: sacred regality and dramatic representation in early modern England / J.R. Siemon -- Pictures versus letters: William Warburton's theory of grammatological iconoclasm / J. Assmann -- The roots of modern iconoclasm / A. Besançon -- The absent artist / P. Springer -- Iconoclasm on the 20th century musical stage (Schönberg, Henze and Glass) / W.-D. Hartwich.

Papers presented during the 1997 conference held in Heidelberg, Germany, on the topic of religious anthropology in honor of Moshe Barasch, a leader in the field of history of art.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The idol in the icon: some ambiguities / M. Barasch -- Two kinds of representation in Greek religious art / M. Finkelberg -- The truth of images: Cicero and Varro on image worship / H. Cancik and H. Cancik-Lindemaier -- Portraits, likenesses and looking glasses: some literary and philosophical reflections on representation and art in medieval India / P. Granoff -- Indian image-worship and its discontents / R.H. Davis -- The 'iconic' and 'aniconic' Buddha visualization in medieval Chinese Buddhism / K. Shinohara -- Jewish artists and the representation of God / H. Künzl -- Jewish art and 'iconoclasm': the case of Sepphoris / B. Kühnel -- Literarische und visuelle Hermeneutik oder die Unmöglichkeit der Ikone Gottes / A.R.E. Agus -- Torah: between presence and representation of the divine in Jewish mysticism / M. Idel -- Representations of the Jewish body in modern times: forms of hero worship / R.I. Cohen -- Monumental mockery: sacred regality and dramatic representation in early modern England / J.R. Siemon -- Pictures versus letters: William Warburton's theory of grammatological iconoclasm / J. Assmann -- The roots of modern iconoclasm / A. Besançon -- The absent artist / P. Springer -- Iconoclasm on the 20th century musical stage (Schönberg, Henze and Glass) / W.-D. Hartwich.

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