{"product_id":"the-missing-pages-9780804790444","title":"The Missing Pages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e 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 ma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this compelling and original work, Heghnar Watenpaugh traces the dramatic and epic journey of a sacred work of art. \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e brings together an understanding of the deeper layers of culture and history with the ethical issues surrounding art, identity, and ownership.\"—Peter Balakian, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heghnar Watenpaugh is a superb scholar and rare sleuth. But what makes \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e truly remarkable is her gift of storytelling. This is a book with the soul of language—moving, affirming, illuminating.\"—Mark Arax, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dreamt Land: Chasing Dust and Water Across California\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heghnar Watenpaugh writes with colorful prose and deep historical texture. \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e adds much to how we understand the written word in medieval Armenia, as well as the tragic events surrounding the Genocide itself.\"—Eric Bogosian, author of \u003ci\u003eOperation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the fracturing of the Zeytun Gospels, Heghnar Watenpaugh captures the everlasting violence of genocide as it shears and slices into human lives across time and place. Written with both erudition and passion, \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e is a labor of love and a must-read for anyone concerned with the human right to art.\"—Fatma Müge Göçek, author of \u003ci\u003eDenial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-told tale of the history of the Armenian people. Heghnar Watenpaugh takes us on a wondrous and terrifically engrossing journey of this sacred religious object and priceless work of art.\"—Michael Bazyler, author of \u003ci\u003eHolocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh tells the gripping story of the Zeytun Gospels, a 'survivor object' that bears the traces of centuries of Armenian history and culture. Moving across eras and national borders, Watenpaugh's powerful narrative offers a unique perspective on the fate of cultural heritage in the face of genocide and denial. An essential book for all who are concerned with art, human rights, and post-traumatic resilience.\"—Michael Rothberg, author of \u003ci\u003eMultidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Watenpaugh's] book alerts us to the urgent moral and political questions still to be addressed even in the rarefied world of the museum and the library: she forces us to attend to the human agonies, cultural calamities, and moral ambiguities that lie behind many apparently tranquil museum exhibits.\"—Eamon Duffy, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] gripping, and at times unsettling, history of what is known as the Zeytun Gospels, a lavishly illuminated Armenian book that miraculously survived centuries of war, conquest and dispossession.In addition to supplying an important account of a celebrated object, Ms. Watenpaugh has written an impassioned polemic. She invites us to consider how the 'power of curation,' as well as the publicity and wealth attendant upon modern museum culture, can transform an object of specific liturgical use into a highly valued work of art, and what that might mean for all involved.\"—Ernest Hilbert, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e is a work that only Watenpaugh could write with her mastery of Arabic, Turkish, and especially Western Armenian....[She] is certain to attract the attention of scholars outside her field promising to usher forth a conversation about the relationship between cultural heritage and human rights.\"—Elyse Semerdjian, \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e... takes up issues of both more recent and long-standing art historical concern and, insofar as it is a narrative that unfolds between legal charges and settlement, as a whole adds real substance and nuance to debates on provenance and repatriation.\"—Lisa Mahoney, \u003ci\u003eManuscript Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The history of the [Zeytun Gospels] manuscript, which spans the better part of a millennium, represents a compelling example of why provenance research can also serve the cause of historical justice... [Watenpaugh] further discusses the need for museums to come to terms with the complicated and often controversial trajectories by which the objects they enshrine as art made their ways to their institutional homes, and how they also therefore speak with very human voices not only of terrible tragedy but also of the inseparable links between memory and material relics.\"—Jeffrey F. Hamburger, \u003ci\u003eWest 86th\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is hoped that \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e will contribute to and inform the ongoing debate over survivor objects and the positionality of the contemporary scholar with regard to contested pasts.\"—Sergio La Porta, \u003ci\u003eThe American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh has achieved the nearly impossible in this book. The volume is the fruit of extensive and profound scholarship, covering a variety of historical periods and geographical milieux... But the scholarship and historical expertise are worn lightly; and the author has succeeded in presenting the rather entangled history of a manuscript with clarity and passion. The result is accessible, highly readable, and may be enjoyed by the general reader as well as those with more specialised interests.\"—Haig Utidjian, \u003ci\u003eClavibus Unitis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Survivor Objects. Artifacts of Genocide\u003cbr\u003e  2. Hromkla. The God-Protected Castle of Priests and Artists\u003cbr\u003e  3. Zeytun. The Lost World of Ottoman Armenians\u003cbr\u003e  4. Marash. The Holy Book Bears Witness\u003cbr\u003e  5. Aleppo. Survivors Reclaim Their Heritage\u003cbr\u003e  6. New York. The Zeytun Gospels Enters Art History\u003cbr\u003e  7. Yerevan. Toros Roslin, Artist of the Armenian Nation\u003cbr\u003e  8. Los Angeles. 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