Alicia Walker

The Emperor and the World

Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries C.E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781107004771
• ISBN-10: 1107004772
• Artikelnr.: 33269503

Autorenporträt

Alicia Walker is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and the Program for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, among others. She has published articles in The Art Bulletin, Gesta, Ars Orientalis and Muqarnas and is the co-editor (with Amanda Luyster) of Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: imaging emperor and empire in the middle Byzantine era; 1.
Emulation: Islamic imports in the iconoclastic era: power, prestige, and
the imperial image; 2. Appropriation: stylistic juxtaposition and the
articulation of power: the Troyes Casket; 3. Parity: a Byzantine-Islamic
community of kings: diplomatic gifts in The Book of Gifts and Rarities; 4.
Expropriation: rhetorical images of the emperor and the articulation of
difference: the Darmstadt Casket; 5. Incomparability: the Mouchroutas Hall
and the aesthetics of imperial power; Conclusion.