UID:
almahu_9949517577202882
Format:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781942401742
Series Statement:
Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities Series
Content:
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, this monograph challenges us to search for novel ways to explore and interrogate the art of this distant culture. They marshal diverse disciplines--modern art, environmental theory, anthropology--to argue that Byzantine culture formed a special kind of Christian animism. While completely foreign to our world, that animism still holds important lessons for approaches to our own relations to the world. Mutual probings of subject and art, of past and present, arise in these essays--some new and some previously published--and new explanations therefore open up that will interest historians of art, museum professionals, and anyone interested in how art makes and remakes the world.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Peers, Glenn Animism, Materiality, and Museums Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,c2021 ISBN 9781641894678
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
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