Byzantine Things in the World Menil Publications This survey of the diverse

This survey of the diverse icons at the Menil Collection is the first to explore the history and meaning of these remarkable works and their continued ability to surprise and impress

American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) considered drawing as the center of her creative practice

and early modern murals and icons of Cyprus and the eastern Mediterranean Levant

and Richard Serra (2011)

300 individually framed sheets of paper

Byzantine Things in the World Menil Publications This survey of the diverseThis enlightening book makes an object based argument to overturn the normative understanding of Byzantine art through material investigation, historical recovery, and hermeneutic clearing; it argues that art is the wrong category for objects made by and for Medieval Greek Christians. Volume editor and principal essayist Glenn Peers proposes that Byzantine thinkers viewed and experienced things like clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of