Art and Text in Roman Culture
Art and Text in Roman Culture
Out of Print
Art and Text in Roman Culture is a collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the interface between words and images in the Roman world. The relationship of pictures and writing is complex and fascinating. Essays by ancient historians, literary critics and classical art historians examine a range of themes from ekphrasis to epigraphy, from the problems of modern to those of ancient reproduction, from mimesis to self-fashioning, from the cultural meanings of children and death in imperial Roman art to the significance of torture and images of women. The aim of this volume - a sequel to Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture edited by Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne (1994) - is to offer a series of commentaries and reflections on different kinds of interaction between images and writing in Rome, in order to enrich the critical debate within Classical art history.
- Represents new thinking on Roman art
- Deals with the interrelationship of Roman art and literature
- Should benefit from the existence of its predecessor: Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture
Product details
June 1996Hardback
9780521430302
403 pages
254 × 180 × 26 mm
1.015kg
53 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print August 2000
Table of Contents
- Introduction Ja´s Elsner
- Part I. Monuments as 'Texts' and Texts as Monuments:
- 1. Stories one might tell of Roman art: reading Trajan's column and the Tiberius cup Valérie Huet
- 2. Inventing imperium: texts and the propaganda of monuments in Augustan Rome Ja´s Elsner
- Part II. Art Against the Text:
- 3. Even better than the real thing: a tale of two cities Don Fowler
- 4. Vt figura poesis: writing art and the art of writing in Augustan poetry Andrew Laird
- 5. Representing metamorphosis Alison Sharrock
- Part III. Art and the Text of Culture: Identity, Meaning and Interpretation:
- 6. Statues, mirrors, gods: controlling images in Apuleius Yun Lee Too
- 7. The empire of adults: the representation of children on Trajan's arch at Beneventum Sarah Currie
- 8. The torturer's apprentice: Parrhasius and the limits of art Helen Morales
- 9. In commemorationem mortuorum: text and image along the 'streets of tombs' Michael Koortbojian
- 10. Footnote: representation in the Villa of the Mysteries John Henderson.
