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Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art - Papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009 (Paperback)
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Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art - Papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009 (Paperback)
Series: Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
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The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring
Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany
the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The
exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions
ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most
popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect on the
exhibition of Byzantine art, both as an academic and popular
exercise, and through the choice and discussion of individual
objects. Exhibitions present a very different picture of Byzantium
and its culture from works of history. The choices of object for
display, their arrangement, and the underlying aims of exhibition
curators and designers mean that every exhibition presents a
different picture of Byzantium. Particular emphases can be placed,
whether on everyday life or high court culture; Constantinople or
the provinces; or claims of continuity or change over the Byzantine
millennium. The essays explore aspects of the image of Byzantium
that results from these choices. Given the enormous popularity of
exhibitions of Byzantine objects (continued after the completion of
this volume by exhibitions in Paris, Bonn and Istanbul), art has
become one of the most popular and accessible means of popularizing
Byzantium to a wide public audience. Hitherto there has been no
general consideration of either the historiography of Byzantine
exhibitions or the ways in which they have been set up to present
different aspects of Byzantine culture to an academic and general
public. The essays are divided into 3 sections: Exhibiting
Byzantium sets the 2009 exhibition into the context of other
exhibitions of Byzantine art and considers the issues involved in
curating and viewing such major collections of medieval art; Object
Lessons offers a set of studies of individual objects that were in
the exhibition; Byzantium through its Art moves to consider
Byzantine art more widely, thinking about the different ways in
which objects can be used to study Byzantine culture and society.
These are preceded by an introduction by the editors which sets the
volume in context.
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