دانلود کتاب Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500–1500

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500–1500,
focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spirit of place. Since early
Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from loca sancta to signify them
elsewhere. Academic discourse has indiscriminately grouped material tokens from
holy places and their containers with architectural and topographical emulations, twodimensional
images, and bodily relics. However, unlike textual or visual representations,
natural materials do not describe or interpret the Holy Land; they are part of it.
Tangible and timeless, they realize the meaning of their place of origin in new locations.
What makes earth, stones or bottled water transported from holy sites sacred? How
do they become pars pro toto, signifying the whole from which they were taken? This
book will examine natural media used for translating loca sancta, the processes of
their sanctification and how, although inherently abstract, they become charged with
meaning. It will address their metamorphosis, natural or induced; how they change
the environment to which they are transported; their capacity to translate a static and
distant site elsewhere; the effect of their relocation on users/viewers; and how their
containers and staging are used to communicate their substance.