Naslov
IKON 6 - Visions

Autori
Vicelja-Matijašić, Marina

Izvornik
IKON - Journal of Iconographic Studies

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostalo

Godina
2013

Ključne riječi
iconography; visual arts; visions

Sažetak
The theme of visions has been discussed by many: the esoteric and New Agers, feminists and ecologists, historians and anthropologists, theologians and art historians but it has also become the subject research of sciences such as psychology, medicine and physics, in an attempt to define them within psycho-pathological frame or with physiological foundations. Not only Christianity, but also the other great cultures and religions have the idea of “inner eye” or “mind’s eye” that it is able to perceive the spiritual and the divine reality the same way the eye sees the world around us. Visions are often perceived as nightly and dark, as described by Gregory of Nyssa and St John of the Cross, or the Master Eckhart, who in his “visio nocturna” displays “nothing” because the subject of vision does not come from the material world, which makes it difficult to represent it. Images in visions lose their essence which has opened a whole range of issues in the interpretation of the “visible” and “invisible” that remains one of the most important subjects in their study. Mystical visions do not belong only to the early historical periods, they are recorded even now- a-days and are subject of the disputes within the Church. The research of visions is a vast field ; the texts in IKON are interested in a relationship between vision and visual arts. If the mystic text is an attempt in saying the unsayable, than the mystical image is an attempt to show and see the unseeable. “Images” of visions and “images” of art are connected through history - especially strong were the tides in the medieval period, but they are present in modern art as well such as in paintings of Salvador Dali or Mark Rothko or in the art of the entire movements (New Mystics). The articles in IKON deal with different subjects concerning visions: concepts and semantics of vision, visions in the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation, experiences of the medieval mystics and their visualizations, Christian mysticism between theory and practice, visions materialized in different media, the role of such images in teaching and moral education, visions in the art of East and West as well as the overview of relevant studies and bibliography.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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