Roman Eyes : : Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text / / Jaś Elsner.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 16 color plates. 88 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index