Roman Eyes (eBook)

Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text

Jaś Elsner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24024-4 (ISBN)

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In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs. Roman Eyes is not a history of official public art--the monumental sculptures, arches, and buildings we typically associate with ancient Rome, and that tend to dominate the field. Rather, Elsner looks at smaller objects used or displayed in private settings and closed religious rituals, including tapestries, ivories, altars, jewelry, and even silverware. In many cases, he focuses on works of art that no longer exist, providing a rare window into the aesthetic and religious lives of the ancient Romans.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 16 color plates. 88 halftones.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Accounting • Acculturation • Achilles Tatius • activism • Adoration • Adornment • Aelius Aristides • Aeneid • Aeschylus • agalmatophilia • Alcamenes • anchises • Ancient Greek art • Ancient Rome • Anecdote • Anthropomorphism • Apuleius • artemidorus • Art History • Atargatis • atlantic slave trade • bathing • beautification • Bibliography • Bust (sculpture) • Capitoline Museums • castration • Catullus • Catullus 64 • Christian Apologetics • Christianity • Conflation • Cooling • cult image • cultural heritage • Cupid and Psyche • De Dea Syria • deity • Diana and Actaeon • Dionysus • Domitian • drapery • dysentery • Egypt (Roman province) • Ekphrasis • Elegiac couplet • Eloquence • Ephesus • Epigram • Epithet • eroticism • Eumolpus • evocation • Gauls • Genre • grazing • Greco-Roman World • Hagiography • Hare Krishna (mantra) • Harpocrates • hellenization • Hierapolis • hieros gamos • H II region • human sacrifice • hydrogen line • Hylas • Iconography • Identity (social science) • Illustration • Imagery • Imperial cult (ancient Rome) • Inachus • indulgence • Infrastructure • Initiation • In the Water • Ionic Greek • Ionization • Irony • Kabbalah • Late Antiquity • Leucippe and Clitophon • Libation • Maenad • Mannerism • Mimesis • mithraeum • Mithraism • narrative • narrative logic • Neo-Attic • number density • oculus • Ogmios • orgy • Our Choice • Parody • Parthenon • Philostratus • Photon • piety • Pitane (Aeolis) • Poetry • Polytheism • Posture (psychology) • practical joke • Praxiteles • Prediction • procession • Propertius • Protogenes • Pubic hair • Putto • Queen of Heaven • Reionization • Religion • Religion and Sexuality • Religious image • Renaissance Art • Rite • Roman Art • Roman Empire • Sanremo • Satire • Satyricon • sculpture • Second Sophistic • self-consciousness • sensibility • Septimius Severus • Serapis • sexual intercourse • Sicyon • Sincerity • Social reality • Sophist (dialogue) • Sophistication • Stabiae • star formation • Statue of Zeus at Olympia • Subjectivity • Sublimation (psychology) • Temperature • temple of artemis • Temple of Bel • Theatricality • The Golden Ass • The Last Sentence • The Sea Monster • Trimalchio • Turnus • V. • Vatican Museums • Venus Anadyomene • Verisimilitude • Verisimilitude (fiction) • Viewing (funeral) • Visual Field • Voluptas • Voyeurism • Vulva • warfare • Warren Cup • well-being • Western Wall • workmanship • work of art • Writing • zeuxis
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24024-8 / 0691240248
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24024-4 / 9780691240244