CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Dereli, Cicek |
|---|---|
| Title | A Visual Dithyramb: The Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner of Studios |
| Summary | The visual depictions are narrated by their subjectivity and vivified by their timelessness. Reflecting on this blended nature of the visual depictions, the present study is a visual dithyramb on and offered to the Monastery of Saint John the Forerunner of Studios. Concordantly, three interwoven narratives of the site are introduced in the present study; historical, visual and heritage. The visual narrative forms its key-stone and presented in the form of a visual catalogue. The catalogue is a systematic collection of three hundred visual depictions associated with the site, including, black-and-white, aerial and panoramic photography, ground plan drawings, restoration sketches, pencil drawings of decorative details, illustrations of architectural fragments and contemporary building surveys. The interpretations of the visual depictions are supported by the descriptions of institutions that safeguard them as well as introductions of individuals who created them. The catalogue content is timewise delimited to the phase of the site once it fell into oblivion after 1910. The primary intention of the catalogue is to serve as comprehensive research tool for the multidisciplinary study of the site. Therewithal, on the one hand, the catalogue contributes to the historical narrative by rendering the abyss of history visible. On the other hand, it undergirds the heritage narrative by tracing the site’s shift from the historical-religious age to the memorial-heritage age. The three nestled narratives unfold the problematization of cultural heritage in general, and the fate of the Byzantine heritage in present-day Turkey in particular. |
| Supervisor | Perczel, Istvan; Laszlovszky, Jozsef |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/dereli_cicek.pdf |
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