Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

Between Art and Social Reality

AvTonio Hölscher

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del 73 i serien Sather Classical Lectures

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Beskrivning

Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-22
Mått:178 x 254 x 38 mm
Vikt:907 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sather Classical Lectures
Antal sidor:426
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520294936

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Forntidens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Tonio Hölscher is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a visiting lecturer in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. His main publications address political monuments, social imagery and the use of images, public architecture, and urbanism in ancient Greece and Rome.

Recensioner i media

"[Any] omissions do nothing to detract from the theoretical richness and the numerous insights that fill all the pages of this deeply suggestive and wonderfully dense work of scholarship."

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations • viiPeriods of Greek and Roman History • xvAcknowledgments • xviiIntroduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome • 11. Space, Action, and Images • 152. Time, Memory, and Images • 973. Person, Identity, and Images • 1534. The Dignity of Reality • 2065. Representation • 2576. Decor • 304Notes • 341Illustration Credits • 389