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Animism, Materiality, and Museums : How Do Byzantine Things Feel? /

Byzantine art is normally explained as devotional, historical, highly intellectualized, but this book argues for an experiential necessity for a fuller, deeper, more ethical approach to this art. Written in response to an exhibition the author curated at The Menil Collection in 2013, these essays ch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Peers, Glenn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2021]
Colección:Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Animate Materialities from Icon to Cathedral
  • Chapter 1. Showing Byzantine Materiality
  • Chapter 2. The Byzantine Material Symphony: Sound, Stuff, and Things
  • Part 2. Byzantine Things in the World: Animating Museum Spaces
  • Chapter 3. Prelude on Transfiguring Exhibition
  • Chapter 4. Transfiguring Materialities: Relational Abstraction in Byzantium and Its Exhibition
  • Chapter 5. Framing and Conserving Byzantine Art: Experiences of Relative Identity
  • Part 3. Pushing the Envelope, Breaking Out: Making, Materials, Materiality
  • Chapter 6. Angelic Anagogy, Silver, and Matter's Mire
  • Chapter 7. Late Antique Making and Wonder
  • Chapter 8. Senses' Other Sides
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index