Nicoletta Isar

Nicoletta Isar

Associate professor emerIta, Associate Professor Emerita


  1. Published

    Χορός: A stage-shifting periact on which all the earth will dance. A Paradigm for dance from Antiquity to Byzantium and beyond

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2014, Danses imaginades, danses relatades. Dancing Images and Tales: Paradigmes iconogràfics del ball des de l’Antiguitat clàssica fins a l’edat mitjana. Iconography of dance from Classical to Middle Age. Buttà, L., Carruesco, J., Massip, F. & Subías, E. (eds.). Tarragona: Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, Vol. T R A M A 1 TREBALLS D’ARQUEOLOGIA DE LA MEDITERRÀNIA ANTIGA . p. 51-64 14 p.

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

  2. Published

      Icons at the Willumsen Museum in Denmark. Ethical Issues on Icon Research and Conservation

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperResearch

  3. Published

    XOPÓS = Chorós : the dance of Adam: The Making of Byzantine Chorography. The Anthropology of the Choir of Dance in Byzantium

    Isar, Nicoletta, 25 May 2011, Leiden: Alexandros Press. 448 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    With Silent Lips: Sacred Prayers in Byzantine Ekphraseis and Other Text(iles)

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2010, Filologija. Istorija. Izkustvoznanie.: Sbornik izsledvanija v cest na prof. dfn Stefan Smjadovski. Sofia: Izdatelstvo Valentin Trajanov, p. 215-232 18 p.

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

  5. 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

  6. Published

    Voice Under Erasure: Viola’s Choral Visions and his Phonophobia

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2010, In: Cinematographic Art. 1 (5), p. 8-13 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Vision of the Unspoken: Voila's Hierotopy

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2004, In: Arken. Bulletin. vol. 2, p. 29-39

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommissioned

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Viola's Passionate Interregnum: Performing the Chôra Space-in-Between

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2008, In: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. 1 (50), series IV, p. 199-204

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Veiled Word(s) – Sacred Silence: Screening the Mystery in the Byzantine Altar

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2014, Image and Altar 800‑1300. Papers from an International Conference in Copenhagen 24 October – 27 October 2007: Publications from the National Museum Studies in Archaeology & History Vol. XX. Grinder-Hansen, P. (ed.). Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, p. 27-44 18 p. (Publications of the National Museum. Studies in Archaeology & History, Vol. 23).

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

  11. Published

    Valorisation épigraphique dans l'herméneutique iconographique de l'image

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1996, In: Byzantinoslavica: revue internationale des études byzantines. LVII (1996) 2, p. 351-375

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    VICTOR HAGEA AMAZING!

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2008, London: WOA /WORLD OF ART Publishing Petru Russu. 66 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Published

    Tropes And Tools Of Creativity: The Ontology Of Image And Its Unpredictable Operations

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2016, The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research . Glaveanu, V. P. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 701-720 (Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture).

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

  17. Published

    To the Stranger with Love: Of Hospitality (Philoxenia) and the Exchanged Gifts

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2003, In: Romanian Journal of International Affairs. IX special issue, p. 117-122

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  18. Published

    Theatre of Presence - Antero Alli's Paratheatrical ReSearch Lab

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

  19. Published

    The Wrath of Image: Violent Origins of Art as Technè and its Contemporary Aftermath Anthropogony in the Era of the Artificial

    Isar, Nicoletta, 15 Oct 2013, Transvisuality - the cultural dimension of visuality. Vol. 1 Boundaries and creative openings . Kristensen, T., Michelsen, A. & Wiegand, F. (eds.). October 15, 2013 ed. Liverpool University Press : Liverpool University Press, p. 114-127 14 p.

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

  20. 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

  21. Published

    The Sounding Waters: Performing World Harmony at Aquisgranum

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2018, In: Das Mittelalter. 23, 2, p. 331–357 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    The Sense of the Elementals (Lightning, Thunder) in the Transfiguration of Christ on the Holy Mountain -a Hierotopy of Theomorphism

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2017, Holy Mountains in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian World: Materials from the International Symposium. Lidov, A. (ed.). UNESCO ed. Moscow: Theoria: Moscow UNESCO, p. 45-47 3 p.

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

  23. 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

  24. Published

    The Possible in the Life and Work of Julia Kristeva

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2022, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, p. 1-7

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

  25. Published

    The Nativity of Christ: A Theophany

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1996, In: Peregrina.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

  26. 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

  27. Published

    The Iconic Chora: A Space of Kenotic Presence and Void

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2000, In: Transfiguration: Nordisk tidsskrift for kunst og kristendom. no. 2, p. 64-80

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    The Dance of Adam: Reconstructing the Byzantine Chorós

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2003, In: Byzantinoslavica: revue internationale des études byzantines. LXI, p. 179-204

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    The Dance of Adam: Anastasis - a nuptial ceremonial?

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2001, Pré-Actes XXe Congrès International des Études Byzantines. Collège de France Sorbonne, p. 450

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

  30. 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

  31. Published

    Text (Wall) Image - a semiotic approach of the post-byzantine décoration of the Moldavian churches

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1996, Byzantium. Identity, Image, Influence. Abstracts XiX International Congress of Byzantine Studies. University of Copenhagen, p. 5334

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

  32. Published

    THE UNSPEAKABLE GIFT: DEA THE KORE: Sacrifice, Love and the Inscrutable

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2023, Alexander Tovborg: Sacrificial Love Beyond Devotion. Dengsøe, M. (ed.). Blum & Poe

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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. Published

    Surface and Decoy: Painting as Seduction

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2008, In: MOT Masters of Today. p. 76-77 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  36. 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

  37. Published

    Revealing/Concealing: Dazzling Presence in the Byzantine Χώρα

    Isar, Nicoletta, Mar 2021, Enthüllen und Verbergen in der Vormoderne / Revealing and Concealing in the Premodern Period. Basel: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Vol. Eikones. p. 181-199 19 p.

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

  38. Published

    Potential Images

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2022, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible. Glaveanu, V. P. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 10 p.

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

  39. Published

    Phenomenology, New Materialism, and Advances In the Pulsatile Imaginary: Rites of Disimagination

    Isar, Nicoletta (ed.), 2024, Springer Nature Switzerland AG : Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 300 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  40. Published

    Pathei Mathos and Skandalon in Le Sacre du Printemps

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2023, In: Postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies Special issue: Legacies of medieval dance. 14, 2-3, p. 419-433 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  41. 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

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  43. Published

    Le mur aboli: le sacrement de la Parole dans les absides des eglises moldaves

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1999, In: Byzantinoslavica: revue internationale des études byzantines. LX (1999) 2, p. 611-632

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  44. Published

    L'iconicité du texte dans l'image post-byzantine moldave: une lecture hésychaste

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1998, In: Byzantinoslavica: revue internationale des études byzantines. LIX (1998) 1, p. 92-112

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  45. Published

    L'espace iconique - inscription et transfiguration. la rhétorique paradoxale de l'mage sacrée à l'âge postbyzantin

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006, In: Scripta & e-Scripta. Vol. 3-4, p. 199-224

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  46. Published

    Imperial ΧΟΡÓΣ:A Spatial Icon of Time as Eternity

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2011, Spatial icons. Performativity in Byzantium and Medieval Russia. Moscow: Indrik, p. 143-166 24 p.

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

  47. 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

  48. Published

    Icoana ca presenta (The Icon as Presence)

    Isar, Nicoletta, 1999, In: Vestitorul Ortodoxiei. Anul XI nr. 234-235, p. 8-10

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

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  50. 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

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