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genericnotes: from ajnabee - @ajnabee: “Despite this potential multiplicity inherent in art, for the most part medieval art was dominated by the Christian narrative and the work itself meant to be read. Kristeva argues it was Giotto who revolutionized the art of his time by liberating color and turning it against form, ‘the transcendental domain of One Meaning’.46 Giotto of course is famous for turning his figures in space, away from the flat plane and frontal view of Byzantine figures (organic bodies if there ever were ones). Theologically this reverses the order of the hieratic Byzantine icon in which the status of the divine is maintained as wholly Other by the symmetry of its form and its direct regard of the viewer. God is the subject; the viewer is his object. By placing the divine in perspectival space, he is given body and humanized. Some would say this deprived the divine of glory and transcendence; Deleuze would say transcendence is collapsed into a plane of immanence.”  -Black or White or Technicolor, Marty Slaughter

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from ajnabee - @ajnabee:

“Despite this potential multiplicity inherent in art, for the most part medieval art was dominated by the Christian narrative and the work itself meant to be read. Kristeva argues it was Giotto who revolutionized the art of his time by liberating color and turning it against form, ‘the transcendental domain of One Meaning’.46 Giotto of course is famous for turning his figures in space, away from the flat plane and frontal view of Byzantine figures (organic bodies if there ever were ones). Theologically this reverses the order of the hieratic Byzantine icon in which the status of the divine is maintained as wholly Other by the symmetry of its form and its direct regard of the viewer. God is the subject; the viewer is his object. By placing the divine in perspectival space, he is given body and humanized. Some would say this deprived the divine of glory and transcendence; Deleuze would say transcendence is collapsed into a plane of immanence.”  -Black or White or Technicolor, Marty Slaughter

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