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

and Richard Serra (2011)

300 individually framed sheets of paper

Gingeras is a curator and writer

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