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Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present-

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. th

Images increasingly saturate our world, making present to us what is distant or obscure. Yet the power of images also arises from what they do not make present�

In about 25 BC tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of 'delayed cinema' to ideas on time and the relationship to