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The Icon Painting Tradition and Modern Art: Hermeneutical Considerations

By Federico José Xamist on April 21, 2016
The Icon Painting Tradition and Modern Art: Hermeneutical Considerations

 To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize ‘how it really was’. It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.  Walter Benjamin In 1557, the Corpus Historiae Byzantinae, a series initiated by the German monk and humanist Hieronymus Wolf[1], was published. Ever since, the region […]

Posted in Iconography, Theory | Tagged Byzantine Art, iconography, modernism April 19, 2016

Deisis – An Iconographic Installation

By Federico José Xamist on November 4, 2015
Deisis – An Iconographic Installation

The truth is that when I was offered the possibility to set up a small exhibition on the occasion of the 34th Symposium of Art and Theology, organised by the School of Theology, University of Navarra, I did not have sufficient material, as I was moving and dismantling my workshop. On the other hand, as […]

Posted in Iconography | Tagged art installation, Byzantine, deesis, deisis, Federico José Xamist, greek, Icon, Orthodox November 4, 2015
 

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