Nicoletta Isar

Nicoletta Isar

Associate professor emerIta, !!Lektor emerita


  1. 2024
  2. 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

  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

    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

  5. 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

  6. 2023
  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 2022
  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 2021
  13. 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

  14. Published

    Dazzling radiance. A Paradigm and a Quiz in Byzantine Chorography and Hierotopy

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2021, Icons of Space. Advances in Hierotopy: Festschrift in Honor of Alexei Lidov for His 60th Birthday. Bogdanović, J. (ed.). Routledge, p. 46-67

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

  15. 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

  16. 2020
  17. Published

    ELEMENTAL CHOROLOGY: Vignettes Imaginales

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  18. 2019
  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 2018
  22. 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

  23. 2017
  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 2016
  28. 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

  29. 2014
  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 2013
  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. Published

    Capital Visions of Brancoveanu: The Martyrs Dance

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2013, Constantin Brancoveanu: The Power of Vision. Bucharest: CORESI Administration of the National Cultural Fund, p. 43-109 67 p.

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

  37. Published

    Dancing Light into the Byzantine Sacred Space: The Athonite Chorography of Fire

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2013, Hierotopy of Light and Fire in the Culture of the Byzantine World. Moscow: Teoria, p. 305-316 12 p.

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

  38. Published

    Dialectical Archives du Coeur: Essay in the Anthropology of Rhythm and the Mnemotechnique of the Body

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2013, Arkiver i kunst og visuel kultur. Meijden, P. V. D., Fleischer, J. & Sørensen, A. L. (eds.). 1. ed. København: Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab, p. 38-59

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

  39. 2012
  40. Published

    Discipline du corps sonore, et mathématiques de l'enchantement à l'âge classique: Les Boréades de Rameau - un espace à charmer

    Isar, Nicoletta, Nov 2012, Pensée, pratiques et représentations de la discipline à l'âge moderne. Di Bella, S. (ed.). Paris: Garnier, p. 107-124 18 p. (Rencontres, Vol. 39).

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

  41. 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

  42. 2011
  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 2010
  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 2009
  50. Published

    CELICA IHERUSALEM CAROLINA: Imperial Eschatology and Light Apocalypticism in the Palatine Chapel at Aachen

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2009, New Jerusalems: Hierotopy and Iconography of Sacred Spaces. Lidov, A. (ed.). Moscow: INDRIK, p. 311-337 27 p.

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

  51. Published

    Chorography: A Space for Choreographic Inscription

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2009, In: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. 2 (51), p. 263-268 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  52. Published

    Chôra: Tracing the Presence

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2009, In: Review of European Studies. 1, 1, p. 39-55 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  53. Published

    Chôra : Creation and Pathology: An Inquiry into the Origins of Illness and Human Response

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2009, In: Europe's Journal of Psychology. 2, p. 96-109 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  54. 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

  55. 2008
  56. Published

    Christina Mosegaards barok-vision: om folder, ansigter og stilhed

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2008

    Research output: Other contributionResearch

  57. Published

    From "World Picture" to Image/Sound World: The Spatialization of Sound in Viola's Video Installations

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2008, In: Cinematographic Art. 3, p. 41-49

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  58. Published
  59. 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

  60. Published

    VICTOR HAGEA AMAZING!

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

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  61. 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

  62. 2006
  63. Published

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

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006, Hierotopy: The Creation of Sacred Spaces in Byzantium and Medieval Russia.. Moscow: INDRIK, p. 59-90

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

  64. Published

    ARThropology: A Slice of Life

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006, MADE IN VIDEO - International festival for eksperimental videokunst. København 2006.. København: Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS), p. 15-17

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

  65. 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

  66. 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

  67. Published

    Theatre of Presence - Antero Alli's Paratheatrical ReSearch Lab

    Isar, Nicoletta, 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferenceConference abstract for conferenceResearch

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