Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome : Between Art and Social Reality (Sather Classical Lectures)

Hölscher, Tonio

University of California Press（2018/06発売）

University of California Press（2018/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 426 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520294936
• DDC分類 938

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations • vii
Periods of Greek and Roman History • xv
Acknowledgments • xvii

Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome • 1
1. Space, Action, and Images • 15
2. Time, Memory, and Images • 97
3. Person, Identity, and Images • 153
4. The Dignity of Reality • 206
5. Representation • 257
6. Decor • 304

Notes • 341
Illustration Credits • 389