Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype Within Images and Other ObjectsRupert Shepherd, Robert Maniura In about 25 BC, tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the Emperor was thus regularly trampled underfoot. Two millennia later, during the second Gulf War, Iraqis 'insulted' a toppled bronze statue of Saddam Hussein by beating it with their shoes. Do these chronologically distant but apparently related examples of the defamation of images imply that the persons represented were regarded by their detractors as in some way 'present' in the images? Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects reconsiders the notion of 'presence' in objects. The first book to address the issue directly, it contains a series of case studies covering a broad geographical and chronological range from ancient Greece and the Incas to industrial America and contemporary India, as well as examples from the canon of western European art. |
Contents
Wen Zhengming on imaging | 31 |
the monumental cross in the Italian church | 47 |
Installing absence? The consecration of a Jina image | 71 |
Appars guide to devotional | 87 |
Metonymy in Inca art | 105 |
Poussins conception of figures and | 121 |
Psychological analysis of deciding if something is presented | 135 |
touching artworks from 1500 to 1800 | 145 |
Trompe loeil painting and the deceived viewer | 173 |
The representation of soul by Rembrandt | 191 |
images and healing pilgrimage in classical | 205 |
rethinking the fetish | 231 |
The image of the Roman emperor | 243 |
Sound Observer and ways of representing presences | 259 |
279 | |
299 | |
Other editions - View all
Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects Robert Maniura Limited preview - 2017 |
Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects Robert Maniura Limited preview - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
Alfred Gell altar Amphiaraos Amphiareion Andean appearance Archinos artist Asklepieion bodhisattva body Bologna bronze Cambridge century Chinese Christ Clunas consecration context crucifix cult image culture deception deity depiction devotional discussion divine Dunhuang emperor evoke example fetiss Figure Gell's Guanyin Harnett's paintings History holy huauques human hymns Ibid icon illusion illusionism imperial Inca India inscriptions Jain Jina Lando Leonteus Loeb Classical Library London look Lotus Sutra manifestation marble material medieval metonym monk Montefalco Museum National Gallery Nicolas Poussin nkisi objects Oropós Oxford University Press Petrakos Photo pictorial picture pilgrimage pilgrims portraits Power of Images presence Princeton University Press referent relief religious Rembrandt representation represented response Review of Freedberg ritual Roman ruler Śaiva sanctuary sculpture Śiva Śiva's social soul statue stone Studies tactile Tamilnad temple theory things touch tradition trans trompe l'oeil viewer viewing visual votive offerings Wen Zhengming William Harnett worship York Zhengming