Images at Work

Baader, Hannah; Weinryb, Ittai

doi:10.1525/rep.2016.133.1.1

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How Has the Talisman Returned?1

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“…Historians of Islamic art have led the way (Berlekamp, 2011, 2016; Ekhtiar & Parikh, 2021; Flood, 2006; Leoni, 2016; Porter et al., 2017). Here, the science of talismans remains an object of study, sequestered within a specific historical context: the scholar, accordingly, seeks “to find the connection between historical moments and theories relating to efficacy as ascribed to objects or things” (Baader & Weinryb, 2016, p. 15). The alternative would be to approach the science of talismans as a methodological resource.…”

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The science of talismans today

Anderson

2023

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The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance. In the eighteenth century, European intellectual discourse rejected the talisman on physical, moral, and aesthetic grounds. Today, it has returned and forms the object of distinctive and mutually complementary programs of study in art history, anthropology, and media studies. Its primary interest lies in its account of visual form as an intelligible cause and thereby as a mediator between distinct domains of experience.

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