The Language Of Images In Roman Art
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The Language of Images in Roman Art
Author: Tonio Hölscher
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2004-11-18
This book, first published in 2004, develops a theory for the understanding of Roman pictorial art. By treating Roman art as a semantic system it establishes a connection between artistic forms and the ideological messages contained within. The history of Roman art traditionally followed the model of a sequence of stylistic phases affecting the works of their era in the manner of a uniform Zeitgeist. By contrast, the author shows different stylistic forms being used for different themes and messages. The reception of Greek models, a key phenomenon of Roman art, thus appear in a new light. The formulations of specific messages are established from Greek art types of different eras serving to express Roman ideological values: classical forms for the grandeur of the state, Hellenistic forms for the struggling effort of warfare. In this way a conceptual and comprehensible pictorial language arose, uniting the multicultural population of the Roman state.
Picturing the Language of Images
Author: Laurence Petit
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2014-04-11
Picturing the Language of Images is a collection of thirty-three previously unpublished essays that explore the complex and ever-evolving interaction between the verbal and the visual. The uniqueness of this volume lies in its bringing together scholars from around the world to provide a broad synchronic and diachronic exploration of the relationship between text and image, as well as a reflection on the limits of representation through a re-thinking of the very acts of reading and viewing. While covering a variety of media—such as literature, painting, photography, film and comics—across time—from the 18th century to the 21st century—this collection also provides a special focus on the work of particular authors, such as A. S. Byatt, W. G. Sebald, and Art Spiegelman.
The Social Dynamics of Roman Imperial Imagery
Author: Amy Russell
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2020-11-12
Explores how artists and patrons at all social levels helped form and evolve the visual language of the Roman Empire.