Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Strangeness and Recognition : Mystery and Familiarity in Renaissance Paintings of Christ - Chloe Reddaway

Strangeness and Recognition

Mystery and Familiarity in Renaissance Paintings of Christ

By: Chloe Reddaway

Hardcover | 18 July 2019

At a Glance

Hardcover


$290.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $72.69 with

 or 

Ships in 10 to 15 business days

How do you paint a figure who is fully human and fully divine? How do you paint Christ? Strangeness and Recognition takes a fresh look at well-known Renaissance paintings of Christ and shows how surprising and deeply 'strange' they can be. This book brings an imaginative and affective theological perspective to the viewing experience as it explores the twin roles played by 'strangeness' and 'recognition' in responding to the challenge of creating and relating to images of Christ. By confounding expectations and defamiliarising subject matter, the ambiguity and mystery of these paintings disturbs viewers' expectations and reconnects them with the extraordinary mystery of the Incarnation. While neither words nor images can fully describe God, through a questioning, challenging dialogue with paintings, whose visual language disrupts itself, viewers can be brought to the limits of their own understanding and can enter into transformative and personlike relationships with paintings. These personal exchanges lead through estrangement to the rediscovery of the familiar within the strange and the renewed within the familiar, and to the ultimately unspeakable, unpaintable, mystery of the Incarnation. Drawing on a diverse range of theologians, philosophers, art historians and art theorists, and building on her own earlier work, Chloe Reddaway shows the theological potential of Christian images, even when they are far removed from their original contexts. A major contribution to the emerging field of visual theology, this book will appeal to scholars of theology and art history alike, as well as to the museum-going public.

More in Renaissance Art

Italy: In the Footsteps of the Great Artists : Art of Travel - Nick Trend
The Medici - Mary Hollingsworth

Paperback

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
A Month in Siena - Hisham Matar

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
The King's Painter : The Life and Times of Hans Holbein - Franny Moyle
Leonardo da Vinci : An Untraceable Life - Stephen J. Campbell

RRP $59.99

$47.75

20%
OFF
The Study : The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries - Andrew Hui
Inventing the Renaissance : Myths of a Golden Age - Ada Palmer

RRP $62.99

$47.75

24%
OFF
Truth and Beauty : Pre-Raphaelites and their Sources of Inspiration - Melissa E. Buron
Still Life : Timeless Beauty - Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

RRP $85.00

$61.99

27%
OFF
The Book of Miracles. 45th Ed. - Till-Holger Borchert

RRP $54.99

$42.75

22%
OFF
Perspectives - Laurent Binet

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Women in Early Modern Venetian Art : Fluid Identities - Sabrina DeTurk
Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy : The Art of Play - Kelli Wood