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Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon
Seeing the World with the Eyes of God
Introduction to the Field
This book contributes to the re-emerging field of theology through the arts by proposing a way of approaching one of the most challenging theological concepts - divine timelessness - through the principle of construction of space in the icon.
Discussion of Reverse Perspective
One of the main objectives of this book is to discuss critically the implications of reverse perspective, which is especially characteristic of Byzantine and Byzantining art.
Influence of Pavel Florensky
Drawing on the work of Pavel Florensky, one of the foremost Russian religious philosophers at the beginning of the 20th century, Antonova shows that Florensky's concept of supplementary planes can be used productively within a new approach to the question.
Understanding Space and Perspective
Antonova works up new criteria for the understanding of how space and time can be handled in a way that does not reverse standard linear perspective (as conventionally claimed) but acts in its own way to create eternalised images which are not involved with perspective at all.
Icon Structure and Theological Conception
Arguing that the structure of the icon is determined by a conception of God who exists in past, present, and future, simultaneously, Antonova develops an iconography of images done in the Byzantine style both in the East and in the West which is truer to their own cultural context than is generally provided for by western interpretations.
Interdisciplinary Approach
This book draws upon philosophy, theology and liturgy to see how relatively abstract notions of a deity beyond time and space enter images made by painters.
