Introduction: Signatures of the Invisible: On Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
Phillip Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
The Invisible

The Power of Symbolism in Byzantine Art

1998 ◽  
pp. 152-157
Author(s):  
Isabelle Sabau
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Byzantine Art ◽  
Church Decoration ◽  
The Invisible ◽  
Eastern Orthodox Church

Our deeply visual culture today shows the fascination humanity has with the power of images. This paper intends to discuss the use and importance of images within the context of Byzantine art. The works produced in the service of the Eastern Orthodox Church still employed today, show a remarkable synthesis of doctrine, theology and aesthetics. The rigid program of Church decoration was meant as a didactic element to accompany the liturgy. The majesty of the images bespeaks of the Glory of God and the spiritual realities of the Christian faith. The images were intended to educated and provide contemplation of the invisible realm of the spirit. Byzantine aesthetics, therefore, is thoroughly in the service of theology.

Picturing the Invisible

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 333-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Central Point ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Multi Media ◽  
Southern Ghana ◽  
The Invisible

An understanding of religion as a practice of mediation has great potential to open up new methods and theories for a critical study of religion. Leading beyond the privileged medium of the text, this understanding approaches religion as a multi-media phenomenon that mobilizes the full sensorium. The central point of this article is that forms of visual culture are a prime medium of religion, and studying them offers deep insights into the genesis of worlds of lived experience. Pictorial media streamline and sustain religious notions of the visible and the invisible and involve embodied practices of seeing that shape what and how people see. Discussing the implications of the “pictorial turn” for the study of religion, I argue that a more synthesized approach is needed that draws these fields together. The methodological and theoretical implications of this approach are exemplified by turning to my research on video and representations of the “spiritual” in Southern Ghana.

The Invisible Exit Sign

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
ALAN ROCKOFF
Keyword(s):  
The Invisible

Review of Stillborn: The Invisible Death.

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-87
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
The Invisible

Illuminating the Invisible

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 508-509
Author(s):  
Karen L. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
The Invisible
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