Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh

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The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to JusticeHardcover, 12 February 2019

The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice
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Print Length
436 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Date Published
12 Feb 2019
ISBN-10
0804790442
ISBN-13
9780804790444

Description

In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty.

The Missing Pages is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript's footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields of 1915 Anatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom.

Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it. At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art.

Product Details

Author:
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
12 February 2019
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.75 x 3.3 cm
ISBN-10:
0804790442
ISBN-13:
9780804790444
Language:
English
Pages:
436
Weight:
725.75 gm

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