Byzantine Things in the World Menil Publications American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013)

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

the publication features photographs of the show installed in the Menil Collection’s renowned Renzo Piano-designed building

He formerly served as curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection

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

was instrumental to the creation of the Cy Twombly Gallery during his tenure

Byzantine Things in the World Menil Publications American artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013)This 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