Animism, Materiality, and Museums
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
9781942401735 (ISBN)
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 | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| 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-13 | 9781942401735 / 9781942401735 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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