TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mondzain,Marie-José
TI  - Image, icon, economy: the Byzantine origins of the contemporary imaginary 
T2  - Cultural memory in the present
SN  - 080474100X
AV  - N8187.5 .M6513 2005
U1  - 306.47 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Icons, Byzantine
KW  - Christian art and symbolism
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - Semiotics
N1  - Translation of: Image, icône, économie : les sources byzantines de l'imaginaire contemporain. Paris : Editions du Seuil, c1996; Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-264); 1; Principal themes --; 2; A semantic study of the term Economy --; 3; The doctrine of the image and icon --; 4; Sacred precinct and profane space --; 5; Iconic space and territorial rule --; 6; The idol's Delenda Est --; 7; Ghost story --; 8; The Jew, frontally and in profile --; Extracts from the Iconoclast Horos of Hieria --; Extracts from the Antirrhetics, by Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople
N2  - "The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread in the conceptualization of visual images within the Western tradition. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life—the contemporary imaginary—can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries. It was during this period that the church was compelled to produce an account of the theological status of the religious image that would nevertheless not be open to even the slightest suspicion of idolatry. The solution arrived at was the dual doctrine of the image, invisible (and thus beyond the charge of idolatry) and the icon, visible, and thus perfectly fitted to be placed at the center of a pedagogical and political strategy serving the temporal power of the church. The foundations of this immense philosophical enterprise were laid in no less than the multifarious, interwoven strands of the divine economy, God's overall plan for the salvation of humanity."--Publisher description
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2004000088-b.html
ER  -