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Exploring Aniconism

By Mikael Aktor (Editor), Milette Gaifman (Editor)
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By Mikael Aktor (Editor), Milette Gaifman (Editor)
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This book explores the phenomenon of aniconism—the denotation of the presence of gods, saints, or spiritual forces using non-figural visual markers that do not resemble these supranatural entities.

The contributors show how various types of aniconism differ in how they mediate divine presence and relate to other modes of representation. Aniconism is rarely absolute; each aniconic form needs to be considered within a spectrum of visual modes ranging from the abstract to the anthropomorphic. ...

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