Nicoletta Isar

Nicoletta Isar

Associate professor emerIta, !!Lektor emerita


  1. Published

    Byzantine Parthenogenesis as Hierotopy of Fluid Brilliance

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2014, Water in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian world: The Life-giving source: Вода в иеротопии и иконографии христианского мира: Живоносный источник. Lidov, A. M. (ed.). Russian Academy of Arts, p. 64-66

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Chorography (Chôra, Chôros, Chorós) - A performative paradigm of creation of sacred space in Byzantium

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2004, Hierotopy:  Studies in the Making of Sacred Space. Radunitsa, p. 36-38

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference abstract in proceedingsResearch

  3. Published

    Elemental States of Image: Elan, Pulsion, Rapt, Rupture, Caesura, and Syncopation

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2024, Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rite of Disimagination. Isar, N. (ed.). Springer Nature Switzerland AG : Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, p. 25-70 46 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Of Ambrosia and Tears, Of Life, Death, and Shamanism in Art: A Journey into the Imaginary World of Emil Westman Hertz

    Isar, Nicoletta, 23 Sep 2013, De smukke drømmes lagune. Holstebro : Holstebro Kunstmuseums Forlag, p. 13-54 41 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    The Vision and its "Exceedingly Blessed Beholder". Of Desire and Participation in the Icon

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2000, In: RES: The Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics. 38, p. 56-72

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    The Broken Image Splits and Cutting: Modern Representation and its Beginnings

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2004, Signs of Change. Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representations in the Arts, 1000-2000. Amsterdam - New York: Brill | Rodopi, p. 113-136

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  7. Published

    The Nativity of Christ: A Theophany

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1996, In: Peregrina.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  8. Published

    Hierotopy of light: inscribing sacred space in Byzantium

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006, Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August 2006. p. 214-215

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference abstract in proceedingsResearch

  9. Published

    Dazzling Χορός: Being Moved by Light –Tropes of Sensoriality in Byzantium

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2021, Rituels religieux et sensorialité (Antiquité et Moyen Age): parcours de recherche. Caseau-Chevallier, B. & Neri, E. (eds.). Silvana Editoriale, p. 51-63 13 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  10. Published

    Tropes of Ascension and the Elementals in Viola’s Poetics = Om himmelfart og det elementale i Violas poetik

    Isar, Nicoletta, Nov 2017, Bill Viola. Lund, J. (ed.). Copenhagen: Copenhagen Contemporary, p. 20-31 12 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    THE EXQUISITE GIFT: A Quest for the Paradisiac Leap in Modernism 

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2008, In: Cinematographic Art. 2, p. 26-37

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Vision and Performance. A Hierotopic Approach to Contemporary Art

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2009, Hierotopy: Comparative Studies of Sacred Spaces. Moscow: INDRIK, p. 328-362 34 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  13. Published

    Theatre of Presence - Antero Alli's Paratheatrical ReSearch Lab

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

  14. Published

    ELEMENTAL CHOROLOGY: Vignettes Imaginales

    Isar, Nicoletta, Feb 2020, Leiden The Netherlands: Alexandross Press Academic Publishers. 448 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Une mise en signe de l'espace social et culturel de la Moldavie á la fin du XVIe siécle. Les fondateurs de Sucevita á travers leurs portraits. Une image du pouvoir autocratique

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2003, Inchinare lui Petre S. Nasturel la 80 de ani. Braila: Istros, p. 433-463

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  16. Published

    THE SENSE OF THE ELEMENTALS: Lightning and Thunder in the Transfiguration on the High Mountain – a Hierotopy of Theomorfism

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2019, Holy Mountains in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian World. Moscow: Russian Academy of Arts, p. 158-175 18 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Entry of Theotokos into the Temple

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1995, In: Canadian Orthodox Messenger. v 1, nr 2, p. 20-21

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  18. Published

    Enchanting Poetry in Stone: Being Moved by Light in the Space of Hagia Sophia

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2011, In: Medieval and Early Modern Studies for Central and Eastern Europe. III (2011), p. 19-30 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    The Living Wall: The Techniques of Incarnation and Restoration in Post-byzantine Moldavian Outside Paintings

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1999, Changes in Post-Byzantine Icon Painting Techniques ICOM Commitee for Conservation Interim meeting of the Icon Research Area. The Valamo Conservation Institute, p. 43-44

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference abstract in proceedingsResearch

  20. Published

    Dazzling Presence: An Essay in the Phenomenology of the Saturated Phenomenon

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2012, In: Euresis: Cahiers Roumains d'Etudes Litteraires. p. 130-139 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Images Borne on Dewy Lightning: Byzantine παρθένογένεσις as Hierotopy of Fluid Brilliance

    Isar, Nicoletta, 12 Aug 2017, Holy Water in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian World. Lidov, A. (ed.). Moscow: Theoria: Moscow UNESCO, p. 184-209 26 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    The Recurrent Actuality of the Baroque

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2019, In: Kunsthistorisk Bogliste. 15, p. 7-11 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Walking the Sacred Path Along the Solea in Byzantium and the West: An Essay in Christian Anthropology, Sacred Space, and Sacred Music

    Isar, Nicoletta, Sep 2024, Sacred Architecture, Rite and Music between Byzantium and the West (6th to 15th Centuries). Weißmann, T. C. (ed.).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingArticle in proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    Undoing forgetfulness: Chiasmus of Poetical Mind - a Cultural Paradigm of Archetypal Imagination

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2005, In: Europe's Journal of Psychology. vol, 1, nr. 3 (August)

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  25. Published

    Rite of Spring—Rite of Disimagination: An Inquiry into the Pulsatile Imaginary of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2024, Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary : Rites of Disimagination. Isar, N. (ed.). Springer Nature Switzerland AG: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, p. 177-199 23 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

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