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How to Describe a Painting

Philostratus and Art Criticism in the Graeco-Roman World

Av Jaś Elsner, Michael Squire

Del i serien Greek Culture in the Roman World

1030 kr

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How should we talk about material objects, especially the virtual two-dimensional impressions of painting? A particularly sophisticated answer is provided by Philostratus' Imagines, one of the world's earliest and greatest works of art criticism. Jaś Elsner and Michael Squire situate this Imperial Greek text in its various 'Second Sophistic' contexts, especially in relation to Graeco-Roman traditions of image-making, aesthetics, rhetoric and the evocation of visual impressions (so-called 'ecphrasis'). They also champion its extraordinarily rich significance for anyone interested in perception, subjective imagination and the emotional leverage of art. If the Imagines remains unsurpassed as one of the western tradition's most creatively original, scintillating and self-reflexive works of art criticism, Elsner and Squire argue, its relevance is also pressingly contemporary: there are modern lessons to be learnt from this ancient project of educating the young - lessons that have a particular urgency in our own dawning digital age.
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Jaś Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology at Corpus Christi College and Professor of Late Antique Art in the University of Oxford. He is also Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago and (since 2019) a member of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft at the Kunsthistorisches Institut at Florence. He has published widely on Graeco-Roman art, comparative art history and the history of religion, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. Michael Squire holds the Laurence Chair of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Trinity College. His research interests encompass the literary and visual cultures of classical antiquity, as well as the reception of ancient art and the history of aesthetics (especially in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.

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