Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / S. Brent Plate -- Sect. 1. Aisthesis: Perceiving Between the Eye and the Mind. from "Vision," in A Natural History of the Senses / Diane Ackerman. from Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing / Richard L. Gregory. from The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing / James Elkins. from "Metaphors on Vision" / Stan Brakhage -- Sect. 2. Icon: The Image of Jesus Christ and Christian Theology. from "Image" / Margaret R. Miles. from Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meaning / John Drury. from The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion / Leo Steinberg. from '"Would Jesus Have Sat for a Portrait?' The Likeness of Christ in the Popular Reception of Sallman's Art" / David Morgan -- Sect. 3. Qalam: Word and Imaged In Islamic Calligraphy. from Mediation of Ornament / Oleg Grabar. from Calligraphy and Islamic Culture / Annemarie Schimmel. from "The Spiritual Message of Islamic Calligraphy" in Islamic Art and Spirituality / Seyyed Hossein Nasr. from Modern Islamic Art / Wijdan Ali -- Sect. 4. Shinjin: The Seeing Body-Mind in the Japanese Zen Garden. from Buddhism and the Arts of Japan / Richard B. Pilgrim. from The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy / Yasuo Yuasa. "The Japanese Garden: Seeing and Cultivating Micro-Macrocosmic Correlativity" / Shigenori Nagatomo and Pamela D. Winfield. from The Ocean in the Sand / Mark Holborn -- Sect. 5. Darshan: Seeing the Hindu Divine Image in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. from Darshan / Diana L. Eck. from Lives of Indian Images / Richard H. Davis. from the prologue to Devi: Goddess of India / John Stratton Hawley. from "All in the (Raghu) Family" / Philip Lutgendorf -- Sect. 6. Zakhor: Modern Jewish Memory Built into Architecture. from Jewish Icons / Richard Cohen. from The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning / James E. Young. "Holocaust Icons, Holocaust Idols" / Oren Baruch Stier. "Building Zakhor: The Place of Memory in Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Berlin" / S. Brent Plate.

Aisthesis : perceiving between the eye and mind -- Icon : the image of Jesus Christ and Christian theology -- Qalam : word and image in Islamic calligraphy -- Shinjin : the seeing body-mind in the Japanese Zen garden -- Darshan : seeing the Hindu divine image in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Zakhor : modern Jewish memory built into architecture.