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Throughout, Carnes maintains that iconoclasm is as necessary to iconophilia as absence is to presence, and she hopes to offer both a reassessment and a restorative vision of the role of Christian images within the variously iconophile or--phobic denominations of the Church.

In contrast, the iconophile movement sought to expand greatly the space in which economic activity takes place.

(19.) On this theme, see Kenneth Parry, Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (Leiden: Brill, 1996) 22-33.

Those chroniclers clearly shared an iconophile source, which was also used by the iconophile Council of Nicaea of 787 and was therefore composed before that date.

These fragments were regarded as spurious by the iconophile fathers of the eight and ninth centuries who claimed that the iconoclasts had confused the anti-image writings of a certain Epiphanides with those of Epiphanius, an orthodox bishop of Cyprus.

She does not believe it possible to get rid of images, nor does she want to, but she worries about "extracting an image out of the flow" and "becoming fascinated with it." (30) The truest iconophile, for Type B, is also a kind of iconoclast.

(10) For all the febrile, baroque, iconophile sensuality of the

He examines a body of writing on art and vision produced during 11th-century Byzantium, and points out the influence of that writing in iconophile doctrines and compendia of heresies produced in the Middle Byzantine era.

However, on the subject of his collection's lacuna of the caricatures in which he was the subject, John Grand-Carteret asserts: "A vrai dire, malgre toutes les qualites picturales de son ecriture, << Emile Zola >> ne fut jamais un grand iconophile" (86).

Following some of the arguments of Alain Besancon, we can recognize that the iconophile's attitudes toward optical plenitude and totality are invariably accompanied by specific gestures within the work, acknowledging the limits of representation and foregrounding the haunting of the visual field by forces of invisibility.

(178.) For example, popular tradition held that the first iconophile martyr was a nun.

And if iconophile theory had propounded a non-essential relation between model and copy, that between one image and another was essential: in order to "work" an image must emulate its precursor as closely as a human agent could manage.