The audience that bought the cheap replicas was different from the audience responding to the costly replicas. The books won Vasari Awards in 1987 and 1991 from the Dallas Museum of Art for outstanding art history book. Her research has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Meadows Foundation, and the Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, among others. As she continues her research, Carr hopes to learn more about icons' relationship to the West since the fall of Byzantium. The Crusaders took to icons like ducks to water.
Icons are powerful threads that tie people together.
They were fundamental in creating a shared conception of the world. Through my research and my classes, I hope the Byzantine works become moving, and less alien. Copyright 2000 Southern Methodist University. All rights reserved.