Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.
By:
Tonio Hölscher
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 73
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 38mm
Weight: 907g
ISBN: 9780520294936
ISBN 10: 0520294939
Series: Sather Classical Lectures
Pages: 426
Publication Date: 22 June 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations • vii Periods of Greek and Roman History • xv Acknowledgments • xvii Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome • 1 1. Space, Action, and Images • 15 2. Time, Memory, and Images • 97 3. Person, Identity, and Images • 153 4. The Dignity of Reality • 206 5. Representation • 257 6. Decor • 304 Notes • 341 Illustration Credits • 389
Tonio Hölscher is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and a visiting lecturer in France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. His main publications address political monuments, social imagery and the use of images, public architecture, and urbanism in ancient Greece and Rome.
Reviews for Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality
[Any] omissions do nothing to detract from the theoretical richness and the numerous insights that fill all the pages of this deeply suggestive and wonderfully dense work of scholarship. * Gnomon *
