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Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present—from a type of absence they do not dispel. Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understanding of images as lifeless objects, this book offers a theological meditation on the ways images convey presence into our world. Just as Christ negates himself in order to manifest the invisible God, images, Natalie Carnes contends, negate themselves to give more than they literally or materially are. Her Christological reflections bring iconoclasm and iconophilia into productive relation, suggesting that they need not oppose one another. Investigating such images as the biblical golden calf and paintings of the Virgin Mary, Carnes explores how to distinguish between iconoclasms that maintain fidelity to their theological intentions and those that lead to visual temptation. Offering ecumenical reflections on issues that have long divided Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions, Image and Presence provokes a fundamental reconsideration of images and of the global image crises of our time.

Image (Theology) --- Jesus Christ --- Iconography. --- Presence.

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A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men's clothing ever created: the codpiece. The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men's tights. By the sixteenth century, it had become an upscale must-have accessory. This light-hearted, illustrated examination of its history pulls in writers from Rabelais to Shakespeare and figures from Henry VIII to Alice Cooper. Glover's witty and entertaining prose reveals how male vanity turned a piece of cloth into a bulging and absurd representation of masculinity itself. The codpiece, painted again and again by masters such as Titian, Holbein, Giorgione, and Bruegel, became a symbol of royalty, debauchery, virility, and religious seriousness--all in one. Never has a piece of clothing revealed so much about men only by hiding their private parts. Glover's book moves from paintings to contemporary culture and back again as it charts the growing popularity of the codpiece and its eventual decline. The first history of its kind, this book is a must-read for art historians, anthropologists, fashion aficionados, and readers looking for a good, long laugh. Centuries of male self-importance and delusion are on display in this highly enjoyable new title.

Manufacturing technologies --- Iconography --- codpieces --- iconography --- costume [mode of fashion] --- menswear --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599

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In den jüngsten bildtheoretischen Debatten hat die Idee der Zeugenschaft steigende Konjunktur erlebt. Bilder sind nicht nur »stumme Zeugen«, sie halten vielmehr die Aussagen von Augenzeugen fest, und werden so zu historischen Quellen. Sowohl die Bilder als auch ihre Betrachter werden somit selbst zu »Augenzeugen« eines Ereignisses und das »Sehen mit den eigenen Augen« zu einem Kriterium von Evidenz. Die vorliegenden Beiträge widmen sich extremen Bildern des christlichen Opfertodes, wobei sie die Bildgeschichte des Martyriums als Zeugenschaft thematisieren. Hierbei werden bislang kaum untersuchte Verbindungen zwischen der martyriologischen Bildtradition und den Evidenzverfahren in der Theologie, den Naturwissenschaften und im Bereich des Rechts in den Fokus genommen. Das Verhältnis zwischen »testimonium« und Bildevidenz wird auf diese Weise vielschichtig diskutiert, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf die Zeit um 1600 gelegt ist.

Iconography --- martyrs --- Christian church history --- Christian martyrs in art.

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The sieve exhibits a wide-ranging symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. Barbara Baert looks at the sieve from an interdisciplinary perspective and from four different innovative methodological angles: as motif and symbol, as technique and as paradigm. The sieve as motif goes back to Roman stories the Vestal Virgins. In later times, their impermeable sieve, which - according to legend - they used to fetch water from the River Tiber, was iconographically transferred to Elisabeth I as a sign of her integrity. Furthermore, the long durée life of sieves as symbolic-technical utilitarian object is investigated: in examples from the Jewish folklore, the Berber culture, and ancient Egypt.

Iconography --- iconology --- strainers [culinary tools] --- Sieves. --- Implements, utensils, etc.

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Music in art --- Musique dans l'art --- Muziek in de kunst --- Yearbooks --- 78.79 --- 78.10 --- Music --- Musical iconography --- Iconography