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Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon
Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry
Av Michael Squire, Avi Lifschitz
E-bok, 2017
1876 kr
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie ( Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry ) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing''s essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the …
Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon
Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry
Av Michael Squire, Avi Lifschitz
E-bok, 2017
1876 kr
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie ( Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry ) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing''s essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the …
The Iliad in a Nutshell
Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae
Häftad, 2016
894 kr
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The Tabulae Iliacae (Iliac tablets) are a collection of twenty-two miniature marble reliefs from the early Roman Empire; all of them are inscribed in Greek, and most depict the panoramic vistas of Greek Epic. This book brings the tablets to life as never before, revealing the unassuming fragments …
Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon
Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry
Av Avi Lifschitz, Michael Squire
Inbunden, 2017
2222 kr
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the …
The Iliad in a Nutshell
Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae
Inbunden, 2011
2174 kr
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The Iliad in a Nutshell has two objectives: first, it advances a new critical interpretation of the miniature Iliac tablets, or Tabulae Iliacae; second, it signals their relevance within much bigger issues facing the study of Graeco-Roman art and literature in the twenty-first century. By …
Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Inbunden, 2009
2314 kr
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The relation between the visual and the verbal spheres has been much contested in recent years, from laments about the 'logocentricism' of the academy to the heralding of the 'pictorial turn' of the multimedia age. This lavishly illustrated book recontextualises these debates through the historical …
Art of the Body
Antiquity and its Legacy
E-bok, 2011
409 kr
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The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first …
Art of the Body
Antiquity and its Legacy
E-bok, 2011
418 kr
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The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first …
How to Describe a Painting
Philostratus and Art Criticism in the Graeco-Roman World
Av Jaś Elsner, Michael Squire
Inbunden, 2026
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 …
The Frame in Classical Art
A Cultural History
Av Verity Platt, Michael Squire
Inbunden, 2017
2398 kr
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The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for …
Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Häftad, 2015
653 kr
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The relation between the visual and the verbal spheres has been much contested in recent years, from laments about the 'logocentricism' of the academy to the heralding of the 'pictorial turn' of the multimedia age. This lavishly illustrated book recontextualises these debates through the historical …
The Frame in Classical Art
A Cultural History
Av Verity Platt, Michael Squire
Häftad, 2020
972 kr
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The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for …
Sight and the Ancient Senses
E-bok, 2015
876 kr
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It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in …
Sight and the Ancient Senses
E-bok, 2015
876 kr
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It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in …
Sight and the Ancient Senses
Inbunden, 2015
3161 kr
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It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in …
Sight and the Ancient Senses
Häftad, 2015
668 kr
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It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in …
Art of the Body
Antiquity and its Legacy
Inbunden, 2011
1464 kr
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The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first …
Art of the Body
Antiquity and its Legacy
Häftad, 2011
386 kr
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The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide-ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure. This book is the first …
Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art
Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity
Av Michael Squire, Nikolaus Dietrich
E-bok, 2018
2232 kr
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How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. …
Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art
Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity
Av Michael Squire, Nikolaus Dietrich
E-bok, 2018
2162 kr
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How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. …
