In the name of the image : figurative representation in Islamic and Christian cultures / Axel Langer (ed.) ; texts, Ahmad Milad Karimi [and eleven others] ; translations, Amy Klement, Steven Lindberg.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-465).
Contents:
Between belief in images and a ban on images: introductory thoughts on the exhibition / Axel Langer -- Catalogue -- God loves beauty: on portraying the unportrayable in Islam / Ahmad Milad Karimi -- "My eyes have seen your salvation": the image and the veneration of images in Catholicism / Rene Schurte -- Images, coins, statues: iconoclasm and the question of representation in Byzantium / Christophe Erismann -- Islam and image: paradoxical histories / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Engines of prophecy: materializing Muhammad in the modern Islamic world / Christiane Gruber -- The mandylion and the revocation of Old Testament prohibition of images in Christianity / Daniel Spanke -- Writing about beauty: the hilye of Muhammad and visualization through script / Tobias Heinzelmann -- Speaking bones and narrative pictures: aniconism versus visual narratives on small tabernacles in late-medieval Christian art / Beate Fricke -- The profane visual worlds of the Middle Ages in Latin Western Europe / Dieter Blume -- Portraits of Ottoman sultans between East and West / Hans Georg Majer -- Persian and Mughal portrait miniatures: types or true likenesses? / Friederike Weis -- Images and words in Mamluk metalwork (1250-1517) / Doris Behrens-Abouseif.
Summary:
In the Name of the Image' primarily attempts to direct attention to the history of both Islamic and Christian cultures, tracing and analyzing their ways of dealing with images. Even though both Christianity and Islam are familiar with religious bans on images, pictures, portraits, and other works of pictorial art can still be found in both cultural areas. Still, the prohibition of images is mainly associated with Islam, while the question of why, for example, statues of Mary are worshipped in (Catholic) churches, is rarely posed. What was the function of the image and what sort of meaning did it have? Whom did the image address, and what message did it send? What role did theology play in this, and what role was assigned to secular ruling powers? It turns out that there are not only differences between the two cultures, but unexpected similarities as well. Ultimately, this is a story that fluctuates between iconophilism and iconophobia, between faith in images and criticism of them.00Exhibition: Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland (03.02. - 22.05.2022).
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