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001 2011000378
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008 110110s2011 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011000378
020 $a9781107004771 (hardback)
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050 00 $aN8236.P695$bW35 2011
082 00 $a709.02/14$222
100 1 $aWalker, Alicia.
245 14 $aThe emperor and the world :$bexotic elements and the imaging of Byzantine imperial power, ninth to thirteenth century CE /$cAlicia Walker.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axxvii, 260 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
520 $a"Byzantine imperial imagery is commonly perceived as a static system. In contrast to this common portrayal, this book draws attention to its openness and responsiveness to other artistic traditions. Through a close examination of significant objects and monuments created over a 350-year period, from the ninth to the thirteenth century, Alicia Walker shows how the visual articulation of Byzantine imperial power not only maintained a visual vocabulary inherited from Greco-Roman antiquity and the Judeo-Christian tradition, but also innovated on these artistic precedents by incorporating styles and forms from contemporary foreign cultures, specifically the Sasanian, Chinese, and Islamic worlds. In addition to art and architecture, this book explores historical accounts and literary works as well as records of ceremonial practices, thereby demonstrating how texts, ritual, and images operated as integrated agents of imperial power. Walker offers new ways to think about cross-cultural interaction in the Middle Ages and explores the diverse ways in which imperial images employed foreign elements in order to express particularly Byzantine meanings"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: imaging emperor and empire in the middle Byzantine era; 1. Emulation: Islamic imports in the iconoclastic era: power, prestige, and the imperial image; 2. Appropriation: stylistic juxtaposition and the articulation of power: the Troyes Casket; 3. Parity: a Byzantine-Islamic community of kings: diplomatic gifts in The Book of Gifts and Rarities; 4. Expropriation: rhetorical images of the emperor and the articulation of difference: the Darmstadt Casket; 5. Incomparability: the Mouchroutas Hall and the aesthetics of imperial power; Conclusion.
650 0 $aPower (Social sciences) in art.
650 0 $aEmperors in art.
650 0 $aArt and society$zByzantine Empire.
650 0 $aArt, Byzantine.