Jesuit image theory
The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order s defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented by art histori...
| Subtitles: | Jesuit image theory in Europe and the overseas missions, 1540-1740 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2016]
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| In: |
Intersections (Volume 45)
Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Intersections
Volume 45 |
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Jesuits
/ Aesthetics
/ Art
/ Picture theory
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Collection of essays
B Conference program 2014 (Münster (Westf.)) B Jesuits History B Image (Philosophy) |
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| Summary: | The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order s defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented by art historians, theatre historians, and scholars of the emblem, the question of Jesuit image theory has yet to be approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective that examines how the image was defined, conceived, produced, and interpreted within the various fields of learning cultivated by the Society: sacred oratory, pastoral instruction, scriptural exegesis, theology, collegiate pedagogy, poetry and poetics, etc. The papers published in this volume investigate the ways in which Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the "imago," between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773. Part I examines texts that purport explicitly to theorize about the "imago" and to analyze its various forms and functions. Part II examines what one might call expressions of embedded image theory, that is, various instances where Jesuit authors and artists use images implicitly to explore the status and functions of such images as indices of image-making. Contributors include Wietse de Boer, James Clifton, Ralph Dekoninck, Karl Enenkel, Pier Antoine Fabre, David Graham, Agnes Guideroni, Anna Knaap, Walter Melion, Jeffrey Muller, Hilmar Pabel, Aline Smeesters, Andrea Torre, and Steffen Zierholz" |
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| Item Description: | Most of the essays are revised and extended versions of papers delivered at the conference "Jesuit Image Theory in Europe and the Overseas Missions, 1540-1740", sponsored by the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in October 2014 |
| ISBN: | 9004319115 |