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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New tightly bound hardcover in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.1 x 1.2 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W photos and illustrations. Includes notes, bibliography, index of cited passages in Pausanias, and a general index. 379 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote during the second century AD, when Greece was part of the Roman Empire. The constant intermingling of cultures during this time, as voyagers criss-crossed imperial borders, fostered a prolific and sophisticated genre of travel literature. Pausanias's Periegesis (description) of Greece is by far the most important text of travel writing to have survived from this period. Pausanias work offers the authentic voice of a speaker of Ancient Greek traversing the Greek mainland and reflects the interesting complications of a provincial citizen writing about local culture in the context of the hegemony of the Roman Empire. The Periegesis has for centuries been key source of archaeologists and art historians researching the monuments and landscape of Ancient Greece, as well as one of the major document software Ancient Greek history and mythology. Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece is a major new collection of specially commissioned essays addressing this important writer. These essays, written by many of the leading expertise in the field, unpack the contemporary dynamics that informed Pausanias writing of this text. They explore some significant case studies from the Periegesis and Cleary demonstrate the importance of Pausanias and Cleary demonstrate the importance of Pausanias in formulating modern attitudes about the topography, landscape, and ruins of Greece. The collection is divided into three sections: Pausanias and His Periegesis; Studies and Comparisons; and Nachleben- the powerful and much underestimated aftershock of Pausanias writings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume also includes a number of short responses by specialist commentators, as well as twenty-seven illustrations of the territories described by Pausanias. The results is a landmark in the revival of Pausanias studies. …

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Art of the Roman Empire | 100-450 AD | Ja& Elsner | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2018 | Oxford University Press | EAN 9780198768630 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Condition: New. &Uumlber den AutorJa&#347 Elsner is professor of late antique art at the University of Oxford. He is author or editor of many books including Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always potentially and without protection within the narrative of figurines. As such, they have potential for a potent, even animated, agency in relation to those who use them.This volume concerns figurines as archaeologically-attested materials from literate cultures with surviving documents that have no direct links of contiguity, appropriation, or influence in relation to each other. It is an attempt to put the category of the figurine on the table as a key conceptual and material problematic in the art history of antiquity. It does so through comparative juxtaposition of close-focused chapters drawn from deep art-historical engagement with specific ancient cultures - Chinese, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican, and Greco-Roman. It encourages comparative conversation across the disciplines that constitute the art history of the ancient world through finding categories and models of discourse that may offer fertile ground for comparison and antithesis. It extends the rich and astute literature on prehistoric figurines into understanding the figurine in historical contexts, where literary texts and documents, inscriptions, or surviving terminologies can be adduced alongside material culture. At stake are issues of figuration and anthropomorphism, miniaturization and portability, one-off production and replication, and substitution and scale at the interface of archaeology and art history.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Comparativism in Art History | Ja¿ Elsner | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2019 | Routledge | EAN 9780367331146 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, 80331 München, gpsr[at]taylorandfrancis[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Roman Empire during the reigns of Septimius Severus and his successors (AD 193-225) enjoyed a remarkably rich and dynamic cultural life. It saw the consolidation of the movement known as the second sophistic, which had flourished during the second century and promoted the investigation and reassessment of classical Greek culture. It also witnessed the emergence of Christianity on its own terms, in Greek and in Latin, as a major force extending its influence across literature, philosophy, theology, art and even architecture. This volume offers the first wide-ranging and authoritative survey of the culture of this fascinating period when the background of Rome's rulers was for the first time non-Italian. Leading scholars discuss general trends and specific instances, together producing a vibrant picture of an extraordinary period of cultural innovation rooted in ancient tradition.…

Condition: New. This book covers the many varied works of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world. Editor(s): Bowie, Ewen; Elsner, Jas. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. Num Pages: 414 pages, 11 b/w illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 740. . 2009. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the representation of landscape has been rather less addressed in the scholarship of the archaeologically-accessed visual cultures of the ancient world. The kinds of reliefs, objects, and paintings discussed here have a significant purchase on matters concerned with landscape and space in the visual sphere, but were discovered within archaeological contexts and by means of excavation. Through case studies focused on the invention of wilderness imagery in ancient China, the relation of monuments to landscape in ancient Greece, the place of landscape painting in Mesoamerican Maya art, and the construction of sacred landscape across Eurasia between Stonehenge and the Silk Road via Pompeii, this book emphasises the importance of thinking about models of landscape in ancient art, as well as the value of comparative approaches in underlining core aspects of the topic. Notably, it explores questions of space, both actual and conceptual, including how space is configured through form and representation.…

Condition: New. This book covers the many varied works of Philostratus, the great essayist, biographer and historian of Greek culture in the Roman world. Editor(s): Bowie, Ewen; Elsner, Jas. Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World. Num Pages: 414 pages, 11 b/w illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 740. . 2009. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Condition: New. Reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the problems of comparing the visual cultures of emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam..

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with examples and discussions drawn from visual material. This book mines this rich seam of theoretical analysis from within Roman culture to present an internalist model for some aspects of how the Romans understood, made and appreciated their art. The understanding of public monuments like the Arch of Titus or Trajan's Column or of imperial statuary, domestic wall painting, funerary altars and sarcophagi, as well as of intimate items like children's dolls, is greatly enriched by being placed in relevant rhetorical contexts created by the Roman world.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained in play as what are called 'the world religions'. The chapters in this volume show how the long traditions of studying these topics are caught up in complex local, ancestral, colonial and post-colonial discourses and biases, which have made comparison difficult. The study of Late Antiquity turns out also to be an examination of the intellectual histories of modernity. …

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The chapters assess the strengths and weaknesses of comparative practice in the history of art, and consider the larger issue of the place of comparative in how art history may develop in the future. The contributors represent a comprehensive range of period and geographic command from antiquity to modernity, from China and Islam to Europe, from various forms of art history to archaeology, anthropology and material culture studies. Art history is less a single discipline than a series of divergent scholarly fields- in very different historical, geographic and cultural contexts- but all with a visual emphasis on the close examination of objects. These fields focus on different, often incompatible temporal and cultural contexts, yet nonetheless they regard themselves as one coherent discipline- namely the history of art. There are substantive problems in how the sub-fields within the broad-brush generalization called 'art history' can speak coherently to each other. These are more urgent since the shift from an art history centered on the western tradition to one that is consciously global.…