Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series – serie
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Figurines
Figuration and The Sense of Scale
Av Jaś Elsner
Inbunden, 2020
602 kr
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Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always …
Landscape and Space
Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art
Av Jaś Elsner
Inbunden, 2021
1129 kr
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Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the …
Drawing the Greek Vase
Av Caspar Meyer, Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
Inbunden, 2023
1373 kr
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How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity. Case studies of the seventeenth to the …
Images of Mithra
Av Philippa Adrych, Robert Bracey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1563 kr
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With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place …
Vessels
The Object as Container
Inbunden, 2019
644 kr
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Vessels can take many forms: as objects made for human interaction and handling, they both contain and are bounded by space. They can be constructed of a wide variety of materials. But the range of vessels - across history and across cultures - are unified in their potential for practical …
Conditions of Visibility
Av Richard Neer
Inbunden, 2019
432 kr
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We often assume that works of visual art are meant to be seen. Yet that assumption may be a modern prejudice. The ancient world - from China to Greece, Rome to Mexico - provides many examples of statues, paintings, and other images that were not intended to be visible. Instead of being displayed, …
Figuring Death in Classical Athens
Visual and Literary Explorations
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of death. How did objects and texts generate thinking about what death is and might be like? Were Athenians aware of the imaginative frameworks that …
