
Published online:
19 January 2017
Published in print:
01 February 2012
Online ISBN:
9780520952140
Print ISBN:
9780520272224
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Outlines Of Sacred Economy Outlines Of Sacred Economy
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Iconicity: The Power of Interface Iconicity: The Power of Interface
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The Sacred Economy of Intercession: Icons, Saints, and the Traffic of Seeing The Sacred Economy of Intercession: Icons, Saints, and the Traffic of Seeing
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The Portrait Icon and Modern Visuality The Portrait Icon and Modern Visuality
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Cite
Morgan, David, 'Icon and Interface', Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling (Oakland, CA , 2012; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 19 Jan. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520272224.003.0004, accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
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.
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Visual Culture
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