Roman eyes : visuality & subjectivity in art & text /

In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and...

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Kaituhi matua: Elsner, Jaś (Author)
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I whakaputaina: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press [2007]
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv21r3ptt
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 1. Between Mimesis and Divine Power Visuality in the Greco-Roman World
  • Part 1. Ancient Discourses of Art
  • 2. Image and Ritual Pausanias and the Sacred Culture of Greek Art
  • 3. Discourses of Style Connoisseurship in Pausanias and Lucian
  • 4. Ekphrasis and the Gaze From Roman Poetry to Domestic Wall Painting
  • Part 2. Ways of Viewing
  • 5. Viewing and Creativity Ovid's Pygmalion as Viewer
  • 6. Viewer as Image Intimations of Narcissus
  • 7. Viewing and Decadence Petronius' Picture Gallery
  • 8. Genders of Viewing Visualizing Woman in the Casket of Projecta
  • 9. Viewing the Gods The Origins of the Icon in the Visual Culture of the Roman East
  • 10. Viewing and Resistance Art and Religion in Dura Europos
  • Epilogue. From Diana via Venus to Isis Viewing the Deity with Apuleius.