Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images by Koering, J?r?mie
Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images by Koering, J?r?mie

Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images

An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century Eating...
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Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images by Koering, J?r?mie

Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images

$72.61
Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images by Koering, J?r?mie

Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images

$72.61
Author: J?r?mie Koering
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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An unprecedented art-historical account of practices of image ingestion from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century

Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity, in the European and Mediterranean worlds, people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes. Either specifically made for human consumption or diverted from their original purpose so as to be ingested, these figured artifacts have been not only gazed upon but also incorporated--taken into the body--as solids or liquids.

How can we explain such behavior? Why take an image into one's own body, devouring it at the risk of destroying it, consuming rather than contemplating it wisely from a distance? What structures of the imagination underlie and justify these desires for incorporation? What are the visual configurations offered up to the mouth, and what are their effects? What therapeutic, religious, symbolic, and social functions can we attribute to these forms of relations with icons? These are a few of the questions raised in this investigation into iconophagy.

Iconophages aims to retrace, for the first time, the history of iconophagy. J?r?mie Koering examines this unexplored facet of the history of images through an interdisciplinary approach that ranges across art history, cultural and material history, anthropology, philosophy, and the history of the body and the senses. He analyzes the human investment, in terms of culture and imagination, at stake in this seemingly paradoxical way of experiencing images. Beyond the hidden knowledge unearthed here, these pages bring to light a new way of understanding images, just as they illuminate the occasionally outlandish relations we maintain with them.

Author: J?r?mie Koering
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781890951276


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Publishers Weekly 06/24/2024

About the Author
Jérémie Koering is professor of early modern art history at the University of Fribourg. He is the author of Léonard de Vinci: Dessins et Peintures; Le Prince en représentation: Histoire des décors du palais ducal de Mantoue au XVIe siècle; and Caravage, juste un detail.
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