Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

Between Art and Social Reality
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-29493-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 426 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 265 mm, Gewicht: 923 g

Reihe: Sather Classical Lectures

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holscher, Tonio

Hölscher, Tonio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tonio Hölscher is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a visiting lecturer in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. His main publications address political monuments, social imagery and the use of images, public architecture, and urbanism in ancient Greece and Rome.