{"title":"Jérémie Koering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJérémie Koering\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique exploration of visual culture through his thoughtful and provocative works. His books, such as \u003cem\u003eIconophages\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the intersections of image, history, and memory, inviting readers to reconsider the power and symbolism of art in contemporary society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Koering’s writing challenges perceptions and encourages a deeper engagement with the visual world. His literary approach blends critical insight with a poetic sensibility, making his collection essential for readers interested in cultural theory and artistic expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"iconophages-by-jeremie-koering-9781890951276","title":"Iconophages","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion, but since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artefacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated – taken into the body as solids or liquids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we explain such behaviour? Why take an image into one's own body, devouring it at the risk of destroying it, consuming rather than contemplating it wisely from a distance? What structures of the imagination underlie and justify these desires for incorporation? What are the visual configurations offered up to the mouth, and what are their effects? What therapeutic, religious, symbolic, and social functions can we attribute to these forms of relations with icons? These are a few of the questions raised in this investigation into iconophagy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIconophages\u003c\/em\u003e aims to retrace, for the first time, the history of iconophagy. Jérémie Koering examines this unexplored facet of the history of images through an interdisciplinary approach that ranges across art history, cultural and material history, anthropology, philosophy, and the history of the body and the senses. He analyses the human investment, in terms of culture and imagination, at stake in this seemingly paradoxical way of experiencing images. Beyond the hidden knowledge unearthed here, these pages bring to light a new way of understanding images, just as they illuminate the occasionally outlandish relations we maintain with them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463236960492,"sku":"9781890951276","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781890951276-iconophages.jpg?v=1775029938"},{"product_id":"robert-klein-by-alessandro-nova-9780674294219","title":"Robert Klein","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough Robert Klein (1918–1967), well known for his erudition and the originality of his research, was an important, even paradigmatic figure for the field of art history in the twentieth century, no sustained study has yet been dedicated to his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKlein undertook to rethink Renaissance art and its history from the Aristotelian notion of \u003cem\u003etechnē\u003c\/em\u003e as early as the 1950s, long before anyone was interested in this other genealogy of Renaissance art. For him, the Mannerist work is intended to create awe and wonder, inviting the viewer to question the technical process, a combination of intelligence and manual skill, that made it possible to realise in this specific form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs his newly discovered papers and unpublished manuscripts testify, \u003cem\u003etechnē\u003c\/em\u003e and Mannerism are far from being Klein's only preoccupations. 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