LEADER 04248oam 2200553I 450 001 9910154987803321 005 20240505161505.0 010 $a1-351-87109-9 010 $a1-315-23345-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315233451 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965690 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758200 035 $a(OCoLC)973027318 035 $a(BIP)63373584 035 $a(BIP)40221896 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965690 100 $a20180706e20162013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWonderful things $eByzantium through its art : papers from the forty-second Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009 /$fedited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (349 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aSociety for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies ;$vPublications 16 300 $a"First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso. 311 08$a1-4094-5514-9 311 08$a1-351-87110-2 327 $apt. 1. Exhibiting Byzantium -- pt. 2. Object lessons -- pt. 3. Byzantium through its art -- pt. 4. Exhibiting Byzantium reviewed. 330 $aThe 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. 410 0$aPublications (Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain)) ;$vVolume 16. 517 3 $aWonderful things :$eByzantium through its art : papers from the 42nd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, 20-22 March 2009 606 $aArt, Byzantine$vCongresses 606 $aArt and society$zByzantine Empire$vCongresses 615 0$aArt, Byzantine 615 0$aArt and society 676 $a709.495 701 $aEastmond$b Antony$f1966-$0916785 701 $aJames$b Liz$0162872 712 02$aSociety for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (Great Britain) 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154987803321 996 $aWonderful things$92055259 997 $aUNINA