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LIVING ICONS IN FIVE TRADITIONS: THEORIES AND PRACTICES


 
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A Symposium Organized by the East Asian Art Program, Department of Art History, University of Chicago

Date: January 31, 1998
Location: Room 102 Kersten Physics Teaching Center
University of Chicago
5720 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago IL 60637

Speakers:

Thomas Cummins (University of Chicago), “Between a Rock and A Hard Place: Substance, Image and the Manifestation of the Andean Sacred”

Robert S. Nelson (University of Chicago), “The Art of the World: Living Images, Natural Signs, and Theories of Resemblance in Byzantium”

Woodman Taylor (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Agency and Affectivity of Live Hindu Images from Kota”

Wu Hung (University of Chicago), “Inventing a Living Icon and a Theory of Divine Images in Medieval China”

Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Yale University), “A Secret Life: On the Living Kinrin at Chusonji as a Concealed Weapon”

Discussants:

Linda Seidel (University of Chicago)
Irene Winter (Harvard University)