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Language of Images in Roman Art by Tonio Holscher & Anthony Snodgrass & Anne-Marie Kunzl-Snodgrass
This develops a new theoretical concept for understanding the Roman art of images.This book develops a new 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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| ISBN-10 : 0521665698 | ISBN-13 : 9780521665698 |
| RRP : £17.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 18/11/2004
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page Length : 188mm
Page Size : 227mm