Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art : : Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity /

Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art : : Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity / / ed. by Nikolaus Dietrich, Michael Squire.

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How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Barham, Nicola,
Dietrich, Nikolaus,
Elsner, Jaś,
Grethlein, Jonas,
Haug, Annette,
Hölscher, Tonio,
Kéi, Nikolina,
Lissarrague, François,
Muth, Susanne,
Neer, Richard,
Platt, Verity,
Reinhardt, Arne,
Squire, Michael,
Trimble, Jennifer,
HerausgeberIn:
Dietrich, Nikolaus,
Squire, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 422 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on contributors
  • ‘To haunt, to startle, and way-lay’: Approaching ornament and figure in Graeco-Roman art
  • Figürlicher Schmuck in der griechischen Architektur zwischen Dekor und Repräsentation
  • Ornamental and formulaic patterns: The semantic significance of form in early Greek vase-painting and Homeric epic
  • Ornament und Design: Attisch geometrische Figuralgefäße und Gefäße mit plastischem Dekor
  • Armure et ornement dans l’imagerie attique
  • Beneath the handles of Attic vases
  • Order and contingency in Archaic Greek ornament and figure
  • Ornament, incipience and narrative: Geometric to Classical
  • Of sponges and stones: Matter and ornament in Roman painting
  • Esteemed ornament: An overlooked value for approaching Roman visual culture
  • Delectari varietate: Zur Erklärung der repetitiven Darstellung auf dem ‚Puteal Tegel‘
  • Figure and ornament, death and transformation in the Tomb of the Haterii
  • Ornament, figure and mise en abyme on Roman sarcophagi
  • Aus der Perspektive der römischen Bodenmosaiken: Ornamentalisierte Figuren oder figuralisierte Ornamente?

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