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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Christian iconography"”.
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And the Word Became Flesh: Visual Thoughts on the Book of John
<p>As a Christian artist, the author struggled with the historic baggage of Christian Art history and found most contemporary Christian Art to be an often repeated, inadequate expression of what Christianity teaches. Through a personal exploration of the Bible, Reformed Theological literature, and …
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The Idealised and the Profane Nun: The Image of the Nun at the Fin-de-Siècle and into the 1930s.
… images selected will be reviewed in the light of Christian iconography, highlighting how the nun is represented and understood as a cultural construct, rather than the reality of the nun. Imagery of nuns from this era seems to fall into two categories of idealisation and/or profanation and images …
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Imagining the Thames: conceptions and functions of the river in the fiction of Charles Dickens
… and how he draws on a scheme of distinctively Christian iconography to do so. Finally it shows how he uses it to create and represent an underworld for London, using tropes of epic founded on classical models. The thesis concludes that, in its use of natural forces to signify social ones, …
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Shadow into Parent Light: Beyond Pembrokeshire, Beyond Landscape
… framework, referencing progression through Christian iconography and Biblical narrative, mortality, political conflict including the unrest in Wales, England and Northern Ireland. These figurative works were superseded by a visit to New York, where the cityscapes and high viewpoints created …
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Worship as Interpretation: The Liturgical Reception of Isaiah 6
… Hebrew Bible is used in (Rabbinic) Jewish and Christian liturgical settings, and how this impacts biblical scholars. I argue against the neglect of liturgy and ritual in reception studies and make the case that liturgy is one of the major influential forms of biblical reception. I do this by …
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Krikščioniškieji gėlių motyvai lietuvių poezijoje /
Object of this paper is Christian flower motives in the Lithuanian poetry. Problematic question of the research: what paradigm of Christian flower motives unfolds in the Lithuanian poetry. Sources of the research: poems by Lithuanian poets of 20th and 21st centuries. Important source includes …
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Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
… and localisation of the first appearance of the iconography, has remained a great art-historical conundrum. This thesis sheds new light on this icon and explores the message, roots, function and historical context of the first, most emblematic and most enigmatic Russian allegorical iconography. …
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Bodycloth in Performance Art
Bodycloth is a term coined to describe a third entity which emerges when the boundaries between body and cloth (as separate elements) collapse. This artistic research thesis analyses a variety of inter-relations between body and cloth, as well as various modes of adornment and utilisations in order …