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From the Holy Land to Graceland ─ Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives
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Author Gary Vikan is the former director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and a recognized authority on medieval European and Byzantine art. Here, he unexpectedly applies his expertise on religious art and pilgrimage to our own society, and produces a smart book about the sacred in popular culture. Vikan's writing offers readers an easy, learned, informal style. It evokes the best of the museum world: the pleasure of honest interest, without ironic or demeaning posturing. Here, medieval pilgrim fairs and Elvis impersonator conventions occupy the same footing. Shrines to Princess Diana, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and the dead of the Twin Towers are equally important examples of locus sancti, and sales are comparable whether the product is splinters of the True Cross or vials of Elvis sweat. With insight and humor, Vikan conjures an authentic sense of the deep powers at work behind lacquered pompadours and plastic plants, and the lively circuses at play around objects and traditions we imagine as entirely serious and holy. The book is fully illustrated with good color photographs of the people, places, and events in the text. He does not write in the first person, but Vikan is clearly taking readers to visit landscapes and people he knows from experience, and he often lets the faithful explain their encounters with the sacred in their own words. Though the book's touchstone is Graceland and The King (and by extension, Christian metaphors), it will interest a wide range of readers. The author points out that what makes Elvis such a good example of the sacred in our daily lives is that his cult survives, instantly familiar to believers, agnostics, and jokers alike, drawing new faithful to Graceland long after the original life, death, and community that created it. The book is filled with profound respect for human faith, feelings, and follies, and for customs past and present. A treat for general and specialist readers, regardless of their personal feelings about Gracelands or Kings. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Gary Vikan served as director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore from 1994 to 2012. An internationally known Byzantinist and scholar of medieval art, he has published and lectured extensively on topics as varied as early Christian pilgrimage, medicine and magic, icons, the Shroud of Turin, neuroscience and aesthetics, and Elvis Presley. He is adjunct professor of art history at the Johns Hopkins University and a faculty member in the Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies.
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