{"product_id":"9789042933798","title":"Kairos or Occasion as Paradigm in the Visual Medium : 'Nachleben', Iconography, Hermeneutics (Studies in Iconology)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe meaning of tearing and splitting as a life-, love- and \n\u003cbr\u003e wisdom-generating event (for example, the tearing of the temple curtain) \n\u003cbr\u003e is profoundly rooted in the visual and literary 'bodies' of ancient and \n\u003cbr\u003e Christian thought. The primordial cosmogonic split is always sudden, is \n\u003cbr\u003e always sharp (like a knife), appears as a flash (sudden and all \n\u003cbr\u003e encompassing) and is experienced through the whole bodily sensorium (in \n\u003cbr\u003e shivering, bliss, sigh, wind, breath). The split is the epiphany of \n\u003cbr\u003e radical change, revolution and the transition beyond. The Greek deity \n\u003cbr\u003e Kairos embodies this mystery. The reach of Kairos can be detected in the \n\u003cbr\u003e theory of rhetoric (Sophists vs. Aristotle (385-322 BC)), in humanistic \n\u003cbr\u003e politics, in postmodern theology and in contemporary time-management. \n\u003cbr\u003e Iconographical studies have treated Kairos's Nachleben in \n\u003cbr\u003e Byzantine and Latin visual traditions where the god is conflated with \n\u003cbr\u003e Fortuna and Occasio. This essay addresses the impact of Kairos and its \n\u003cbr\u003e iconographic Nachleben from a literary and historical \n\u003cbr\u003e perspective, and further considers Kairos as a new art historical \n\u003cbr\u003e paradigm. Indeed, Kairos can offer us alternative hermeneutics to \n\u003cbr\u003e reconceive the image as chronotopos, as epiphany and as intercession.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peeters Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46339018719311,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1575.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9789042933798","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}