Containing the Uncontainable: Kinaesthetic Analogies and an Early Christian Box

Bhalla, Niamh (2022) Containing the Uncontainable: Kinaesthetic Analogies and an Early Christian Box. The Art Bulletin, 104 (3). pp. 6-28. ISSN 0004-3079

Abstract

A box has the potential to be opened and closed and to contain something; as such, it is a form uniquely suited to conveying ideas of concealment, revelation, and the containment of the sacred in matter. This was especially true of a small, fifth-century ivory box in the form of a casket, carved in relief with scenes of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. As an object, it incorporated kinaesthetic analogies—through the way it was moved and manipulated and through the agency of its material—in order to convey the mystery of the Incarnation.

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Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2022.2036016
Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Early Christian, Art History, Ivory, Container, Embodied Experience, Theology
Disciplines:	Humanities > Art History
Depositing User:	Niamh Bhalla
Date Deposited:	10 Jul 2024 08:30
Last Modified:	16 Oct 2024 14:40
URI:	https://nul.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570

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