The Reliquary Effect : Enshrining the Sacred Object.
From skeletons to strips of cloth to little pieces of dust, reliquaries can be found in many forms, and while sometimes they may seem grotesque on their surface, they are nonetheless invested with great spiritual and memorial value. In this book, Cynthia Hahn offers the first full survey in English...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2017
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Relics and reliquaries: matter, meaning, multiplication
- Objects of infinite power: relics in the early Middle Ages
- Reliquaries of the late medieval and Renaissance
- The reliquary after Trent: the affective, the collective
- Relics destroyed, relics returned, relics reinvented: the French Revolution, Napoleon, celebrity, the photograph
- The reliquary effect: contemporary artists and strategies of the relic