Art and Efficacy

Case Studies from Classical Archaeology
2020
ISBN: 978-3-7705-6562-7
Verlag: Wilhelm Fink Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 415 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: Morphomata

Ancient artifacts such as statues, reliefs, and paintings gave tangible form to knowledge and abstract ideas, making them vivid, convincing, and lasting. At the same time, they emphasized, concretized, and combined only certain aspects of the ideas in question, while reducing or omitting others.The book examines the emergence of artifacts as material manifestations of epistemic elements and the medial conditions of these shaping processes, as well as the effects of the resulting form. It combines case studies from Classical Archaeology with reflections on central aspects of material culture. With this approach, the book offers new perspectives on famous Greek and Roman works of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boschung, Dietrich

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brendle, Ross

Boschung, Dietrich

Blamberger, Günter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Über Autor(innen)

Dietrich Boschung is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cologne and Director of the International College Morphomata.