Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from The Menil Collection Regular Merchandise ultimately positioning drawing as the

ultimately positioning drawing as the most inventive and mental of all artistic practices

the volumes demonstrate how Johns has been instrumental in elevating and establishing drawing as a major medium in contemporary art

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to the Menil Collection

and an essay by David Breslin contextualizes this reiterative aspect of Johns’s career

Imprinting the Divine: Byzantine and Russian Icons from The Menil Collection Regular Merchandise ultimately positioning drawing as theThis survey of the diverse icons at the Menil Collection is the first to explore the history and meaning of these remarkable works and their continued ability to surprise and impress. Dominique de Menil acquired many of the museums icons from the noted British collector Eric Bradley in 1985, and the collection is widely regarded as one of the most important in the United States. Not only is the full thousand years of the Byzantine empire represented