The medieval art of fear : Christ Pantokrator after iconoclasm
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Centuries before the modern conception of surveillance, medieval subjects imagined an entity that monitored their every move: Christ Pantokrator (Ruler of All). My dissertation, The Medieval Art of Fear, investigates how Byzantine image-makers constructed this all-seeing figure in three-dimensions and manipulated spaces in order to create immersive encounters with the fearsome image. Following the crisis of Byzantine Iconoclasm (726-843), the making and display of Christ Pantokrator structured the visual perception of absolute power. Dramatic poetry, rituals and theologies, replete with fear of the Last Judgment, established the modes through which the faithful would perceive the image. My study taps into this textual evidence as it engages in close analysis of how specific monuments and objects were embedded in public and private rituals that invoked this all-seeing figure. Ultimately this dissertation argues for the critical significance of the image of Christ Pantokrator to the study of fear as a visual, spatial and material experience.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Binning, Ravinder Singh |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Pentcheva, Bissera V |
| Thesis advisor | Pentcheva, Bissera V |
| Thesis advisor | Barry, Fabio |
| Thesis advisor | Kessler, Herbert L, 1941- |
| Thesis advisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Degree committee member | Barry, Fabio |
| Degree committee member | Kessler, Herbert L, 1941- |
| Degree committee member | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ravinder S. Binning. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Ravinder Singh Binning
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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