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Title:
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THE LANGUAGE OF IMAGES IN ROMAN ART
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By: |
Tonio Holscher, Anthony Snodgrass (Trans), Anne-Marie Kunzl-Snodgrass (Trans) |
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Paperback |

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£34.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521665698 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521665698 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
18 November, 2004 |
Pages: |
188 |
Translated from: |
German |
Description: |
This book, first published in 2004, develops a theoretical concept for understanding the Roman art of images. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
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52 b/w illus. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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