Other Icons

Rezensionen / Stimmen

This is an extremely important book, one that makes a highly original and much needed contribution to a fascinating field that is ripe for new work. It is written in a lively, accessible style that will captivate the general as well the specialist reader. The text could even serve effectively in advanced introductory courses on medieval art. Most significantly, it opens the topic of Byzantine secular art to further inquiry... Other Icons is exciting and provocative, both for the innovative and persuasive interpretations it offers on secular art in Byzantium and for the intriguing issues it illuminates for further study. -- Alicia Walker, Art Bulletin Eunice and Henry Maguire have produced an engaging book that will serve for years to come as a welcome starting point for students and scholars interested in the secular arts of Byzantium... The book's ample illustrations and lively prose make its recondite implications comprehensible to a wide range of readers... At once lucid and crisply argued, this book offers an innovative and important discussion of secular Byzantine art. -- Anne McClanan, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies This is a well-written and richly illustrated book with good quality black and white and color photographs, enjoyable to read, and impressive for the diversity of the topics raised and for the wide range of the artistic works discussed... Other Icons is a thought-provoking and groundbreaking study and though some of the new interpretations proposed might appear controversial ... they remain important for advancing the discussion on the nature and reception of profane art in medieval Byzantium, even by sparking opposition. -- Maria G. Parani, Studies in Iconography The treatment of the selected objects in this well presented and illustrated book leads to a new conclusion on a traditional problem of Byzantine art, the question of how far and in what ways its Medieval art connects with ancient Graeco-Roman art. -- Robin Cormack, Journal of Hellenic Studies