Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74152
Ángel Azamar García
{"title":"‘Devotio’ Lindsay","authors":"Ángel Azamar García","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74152","url":null,"abstract":"Estudios sobre la teoría de la imagen religiosa y la pragmática visual consideran que actualmente la función de la “devoción asistida por imágenes” ha quedado en desuso y, por tanto, ya no se utilizan imágenes con fines afectivos para vincular seres humanos y deidades. Al ser Internet el espacio actual donde se crean y observan múltiples dinámicas culturales, el presente artículo rastrea en el performance web Lindsay Lohan’s Last Fan (2012-2014) si es que dichas necesidades visuales se han extinguido. Siguiendo como eje analítico el procedimiento de la meditación asistida por imágenes –contemplación, edificación, empatía e imitación– se descubren similitudes respecto al proceso devocional. La búsqueda del contacto con entidades inefables persiste, pero con imágenes, referentes, géneros, e ideologías distintas.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90173232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74153
M. Bodó
{"title":"La “fotografía” más antigua, ‘El rapto de Perséfone’","authors":"M. Bodó","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74153","url":null,"abstract":"El ensayo se centra en El rapto de Perséfone, pintura mural de la Tumba I de Vergina, y forma parte de una investigación más amplia en que me he propuesto analizar las estructuras pictóricas de las escasas obras griegas que se han conservado y llegado a nuestros días. Mediante la reconstrucción de los procesos de creación artística, el artículo intenta desvelar los conocimientos del oficio de pintar de la época. Los resultados del análisis permiten demostrar que fueron los talleres helenos los que pusieron las bases de las herramientas de comunicación visual que más utilizamos actualmente, como también la representación de la forma, de la luz y de la sombra, del espacio e incluso el uso de la perspectiva lineal. El texto se dirige tanto a los especialistas en el tema como a un público más amplio. Las imágenes gráficas elaboradas por el autor facilitan la comprensión del alto nivel pictórico de la obra.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84860750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74156
Francesco Gusella
{"title":"A Gramscian Perspective on Colonial Baroque","authors":"Francesco Gusella","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74156","url":null,"abstract":"The present study provides a comparative analysis of whitewashed stucco moldings and polychrome gilded altarpieces, major elements of the distinct decorative style that originated in colonial Goa during the period under investigation. The study’s comparative approach focuses on the combination of these materials and the entangled evolution of their decorative motifs. The article employs Antonio Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony to analyze the artistic patronage of a selected group of religious buildings that are particularly important from the perspective of their decorative program. The theory of cultural hegemony is applied to the discursive and stylistic formulations of the local secular clergy against the background of jurisdictional conflict between the Crown and the Holy See. Through this approach, this study highlights the ability of local elites to legitimize their status and assert their dominance though active consensus strategies, namely the persuasive effects of baroque architecture. The distinct quality of the Goan baroque that emerged within this process of artistic appropriation, is here interpreted in its transversal, emulative and intrinsically allusive aspects.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81510166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74143
Gorka López de Munain
{"title":"Objetos para una cultura visual de la muerte","authors":"Gorka López de Munain","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74143","url":null,"abstract":"Las máscaras mortuorias han ocupado tradicionalmente un lugar de escasa importancia dentro de la historiografía históricoartística. Esta investigación se propone demostrar su destacado papel para el conocimiento de la cultura visual del período en el que fueron creadas, así como en épocas posteriores. Las “mascarillas” vaciadas en España, poco investigadas hasta la fecha, pueden ser bien rastreadas a partir de la prensa del momento, donde encontramos abundante información sobre sus diversos usos. Pero el objetivo de la investigación no será tanto una historia de las máscaras mortuorias en España, cuanto un análisis de éstas en relación con la teoría de la imagen. Así, veremos sus vínculos con otras prácticas afines como la fotografía o el dibujo, obtenidos en el lecho fúnebre, pero con especial importancia en su puesta en conexión con las esculturas memoriales que fueron creadas a partir de la mascarilla del difunto. Por último, analizaremos brevemente todas estas prácticas con relación a la posfotografía, asumiendo así la naturaleza anacrónica de estas imágenes, para comprobar cómo estos vínculos de las mascarillas con otras manifestaciones visuales siguen operando a día de hoy.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80225725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74140
Herbert González Zymla
{"title":"La iconografía de Thanatos, el dios muerte en el arte griego, y la percepción de lo macabro desde la sensibilidad clásica","authors":"Herbert González Zymla","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74140","url":null,"abstract":"En el imaginario colectivo del mundo antiguo Thanatos fue el dios Muerte, hijo de Nix, la Noche, y de Erebo, las Tinieblas del Hades. La identificación de las principales fuentes literarias e iconográficas que nos ha legado el mundo clásico sobre Thanatos, permite establecer los tipos figurativos esenciales y descifrar con ellos algunas claves relativas a la concepción que sobre la vida y la muerte tenían griegos y romanos. Junto a su hermano, Hypnos, el Sueño, Thanatos era el responsable del paso preliminar en el viaje del difunto al más allá. Juntos trasladaban al finado, en cuerpo y espíritu, desde el lugar de su muerte al lugar donde se le iban de hacer las honras fúnebres, momento en que el cuerpo era consumido por el fuego y el alma iniciaba el viaje al Hades, conducida primero por Hermes y luego por Caronte. La mayor parte de los ejemplos iconográficos que se tienen identificados del dios Thanatos corresponden al arte griego, etrusco, romano y neoclásico. Como es lógico, en su mayoría son obras relacionadas con contextos funerarios. Se analizan las fuentes literarias y la iconografía de Thanatos en relación a su genealogía divina, tal y como la describe Hesíodo en la Teogonía; el mito del traslado del cadáver de Sarpedón desde el lugar donde murió hasta el sitio donde le hicieron las honras fúnebres, tal y como aparece en la Ilíada de Homero; y el tratamiento de Thanatos en los poetas trágicos.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86870636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74167
F. Dell’Acqua
{"title":"Foletti, Ivan. Objects, Relics, and Migrants. The Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio in Milan and the Cult of Its Saints (386–972). In Between. Images, Words and Objects 2 (Rome: Viella, 2020) [ISBN: 9788867289509]","authors":"F. Dell’Acqua","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82797124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74134
Georgia Aristodemou
{"title":"Eros Figures in the Iconography of Death","authors":"Georgia Aristodemou","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74134","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the intense presence of Eros figures in funerary monuments from the region of Macedonia during the roman period, evolving around the perception of death, the familial bonds and social structure that these monuments reveal. Eros, depicted either leaning on or holding an inverted torch, or sleeping on a rock, when placed upon graves is perceived as Eros funéraire. The funerary connotations of Eros figures often assimilate them with Sleep, Death, and the eternal sadness of Death. Especially when used in the funerary monuments of children, these figures accentuate the parental grief for the loss of their children. On the other hand, the childlike representation of Eros symbolizes the eternal beauty of youth and the parental hope that their deceased children will continue enjoying a happy afterlife.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72887092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74168
Armin Bergmeier
{"title":"Foletti, Ivan and Klára Doležalová, eds. The Notion of Liminality and the Medieval Sacred Space. República Checa: Masarykova univerzita, 2020 [ISBN: 978-80-210-9453-6]","authors":"Armin Bergmeier","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74168","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86754670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74160
Giuseppe Pucci
{"title":"Image et mouvement dans l’Antiquité et au-delà","authors":"Giuseppe Pucci","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74160","url":null,"abstract":"On examine le problème de la restitution du mouvement dans les images de l’art de l’antiquité classique, en partant de la conception philosophique et anthropologique du mouvement des penseurs grecs. Les concepts de σχῆμα et ῥυθμός sont fondamentaux pour clarifier la relation dialectique entre mouvement et stase en relation avec la μίμηεσις, à la fois dans la danse, l’art ‘mimétique’ par excellence, et dans les arts visuels. Une figure peinte ou sculptée est une ἠρεμία, un punctum temporis isolé, qui contient néanmoins potentiellement le flux du mouvement, que l’observateur peut récréer mentalement en imaginant les mouvances qui la précèdent et celles qui la suivent. On compare les vues des Anciens en matière avec celles des certains penseur modernes (Lessing, Bergson, Deleuze) et on termine en revisitant l’anthropologie visuelle fondée par Warburg à la lumière des récentes acquisitions de la psychologie cognitive et de la neuroesthétique.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73449963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eikon ImagoPub Date : 2021-02-08DOI: 10.5209/eiko.74146
David Staton
{"title":"Beautiful Deaths and Heard Gazes","authors":"David Staton","doi":"10.5209/eiko.74146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5209/eiko.74146","url":null,"abstract":"Viewers frequently encounter “normative” prescriptions and perceptions through photographs of how images depicting death and dying should loo and, cognitively, how those images ought to be received. In such encounters, varying fundamental views or cultural myths surrounding death and dying, how it is envisioned, how it is, literally, pictured dictate a particular way of seeing and being. This article considers visual representations made of individuals who choose to enact Death With Dignity provisions to end their lives on their own terms and on their own time line. By an interrogation of a corpus of DWD images, the author investigates how such representations challenge a particular cultural logic. This reconsideration may lead to an awareness; a reasoning, creating a space in which reality is constructed beneath the viewer’s gaze. Such a reality, relies on an embodied or pragmatic aesthetic and is co-constituted by expressions of power that emanate from image and viewer. The author dubs this modality the heard gaze; a vision in which the past, present, and future are fused and subject becomes object or vessel of understanding by perceiving a visual, auditory “cue”.","PeriodicalId":40541,"journal":{"name":"Eikon Imago","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80723415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}