Icon and Interface
Icon and Interface
This chapter discusses iconicity as a prevalent and powerful way in which images mediate relations and exchange in religion as well as in modern society practices. For instance, Orthodox icons—the images of particularly sacred persons—which were the primary form of iconography brought back to Western Europe by Crusaders, mediate two parties in an interactive boundary that serves as the site of interface between the devotee and the saint. Just as the flesh of the face is the living mediation of self and other, the icon serves as the countenance of the saint that is present to the viewer.
Keywords: iconicity, images, religion, Orthodox icons, sacred person
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