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Animism, materiality, and museums: how do Byzantine things feel?
Peers, Glenn

Among our most cherished modern assumptions is our distance from the material world we claim to love or, alternately, to dominate and own. As both devotional tool and art object, the Byzantine icon is rendered complicit in this distancing. According to well-established theological and scholarly explanations, the icon is a window onto the divine: it focuses and directs our minds to a higher unde…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781942401742
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x, 167p.: ill.
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709.0214 PEE a