Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome : Between Art and Social Reality

Cover -- VISUAL POWER IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Periods of Greek and Roman History -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome -- 1. Space, Action, and Images -- 2. Time, Memory, and Images -- 3....

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Main Author: Hölscher, Tonio (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press , 2018
Series:Sather Classical Lectures v.73
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5391426
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome : Between Art and Social Reality
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Cover -- VISUAL POWER IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Periods of Greek and Roman History -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome -- 1. Space, Action, and Images -- 2. Time, Memory, and Images -- 3. Person, Identity, and Images -- 4. The Dignity of Reality -- 5. Representation -- 6. Decor -- Notes -- General Index -- Index of Names -- Index of Sites and Museums.
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (419 pages)
ISBN:9780520967885

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