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Animism, Materiality, and Museums - Glenn Peers

Animism, Materiality, and Museums

How Do Byzantine Things Feel?

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Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2021 | New edition
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-942401-73-5 (ISBN)
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This book argues for the need to integrate museum-based experiential qualities into discussion of Byzantine art in order to reach fuller, deeper, more ethical explanations of this culture than are habitually given.
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.


This book is available as Open Access.

Glenn Peers is professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University and professor emeritus in the Department of the History of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He curated "Byzantine Things in the World" at The Menil Collection (Houston, TX) in 2013.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Collection Development, Cultural Heritage, and Digital Humanities
Zusatzinfo 2 Illustrations, black and white; 25 Illustrations, color
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-942401-73-6 / 1942401736
ISBN-13 978-1-942401-73-5 / 9781942401735
Zustand Neuware
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