Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
eBook - ePub

Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

Between Art and Social Reality

  1. 426 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

Between Art and Social Reality

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Imprint
  2. Subvention
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Periods of Greek and Roman History
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction. Visuality and Viewing in Ancient Greece and Rome
  10. 1. Space, Action, and Images
  11. 2. Time, Memory, and Images
  12. 3. Person, Identity, and Images
  13. 4. The Dignity of Reality
  14. 5. Representation
  15. 6. Decor
  16. Notes
  17. General Index
  18. Index of Names
  19. Index of Sites and Museums