Displaying The Ideals Of Antiquity

Author : Johannes Siapkas,Lena Sjögren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136254017

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Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity by Johannes Siapkas,Lena Sjögren Pdf

Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform modern perceptions of antiquity. This book analyzes how an art historical tradition establishes and preserves an idealized view of antiquity in classical archaeology and in museum exhibitions. The authors investigate how these ideals are kept alive today—an approach that often is neglected in studies on ancient reception.This book offers an international scope and illustrates how academic conceptual foundations influence museum exhibitions.This timely volume discusses contemporary museum exhibitions of ancient sculpture and clarifies how old discourses continue to affect museum exhibitions and conceptualizations of ancient sculptures. The authors analyze close to 100 museums around the world, and demonstrate the ways in which ancient sculptures are mediated across Europe and the West.

Author : Johannes Siapkas,Lena Sjögren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136254024

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Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity by Johannes Siapkas,Lena Sjögren Pdf

Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform modern perceptions of antiquity. This book analyzes how an art historical tradition establishes and preserves an idealized view of antiquity in classical archaeology and in museum exhibitions. The authors investigate how these ideals are kept alive today—an approach that often is neglected in studies on ancient reception.This book offers an international scope and illustrates how academic conceptual foundations influence museum exhibitions.This timely volume discusses contemporary museum exhibitions of ancient sculpture and clarifies how old discourses continue to affect museum exhibitions and conceptualizations of ancient sculptures. The authors analyze close to 100 museums around the world, and demonstrate the ways in which ancient sculptures are mediated across Europe and the West.

Author : Rune Frederiksen,Eckart Marchand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110216875

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Plaster Casts by Rune Frederiksen,Eckart Marchand Pdf

This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand. They are of interest to classical archaeologists, art historians, the history of collecting, curators, conservators, collectors and artists. Articles explore the functions, status and reception of plaster casts in artists’ workshops and in private and public collections, as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts. Case-studies on artists’ use of material and technique include ancient Roman copyists, Renaissance sculptors and painters, Dutch 17th-century workshops, Canova, Boccioni and others. A second theme is the role of plaster casts in the history of collecting from the Renaissance to the present day. Several papers address the dissemination of visual ideas, models and ideals through the medium. Papers on modern and contemporary art illuminate the changing uses and semantic values of plaster casts in this period. Amongst the types of casts discussed are artists’ models and final works as well as casts after antiquities, including sculpture, architecture and gems (dactyliothecae). The volume demonstrates the richness of the field, both in terms of the material itself and modern scholarship concerned with it. Conceived as a handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the text will form a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the history of Western sculpture.

Author : Collections
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442267930

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Collections Vol 11 N2 by Collections Pdf

"Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals" is a multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of handling, preserving, researching, and organizing collections. Curators, archivists, collections managers, preparators, registrars, educators, students, and others contribute.

Author : Can Bilsel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199570553

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Antiquity on Display by Can Bilsel Pdf

"Antiquity on Display" offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the 19th century to the present.

Author : Caroline Vout
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400890279

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Classical Art by Caroline Vout Pdf

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004370715

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Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia by Anonim Pdf

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia broadens the scope of the Western Classical tradition by offering pioneering insights (of leading scholars from Europe, East Asia, and North America) into East Asian receptions of Greco-Roman Antiquity.

Author : Clifford Ando,Thomas N. Habinek,Giulia Sissa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781350007376

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A Cultural History of Ideas in Classical Antiquity by Clifford Ando,Thomas N. Habinek,Giulia Sissa Pdf

Author : Ralph Rosen,Ineke Sluiter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004189218

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Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity by Ralph Rosen,Ineke Sluiter Pdf

Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. This book demonstrates from a wide range of perspectives how such behavior is anchored and promoted in classical antiquity by a varied and conceptually rich discourse of ‘valuing others’.

Author : Zara Martirosova Torlone,Dana LaCourse Munteanu,Dorota Dutsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118832684

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A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe by Zara Martirosova Torlone,Dana LaCourse Munteanu,Dorota Dutsch Pdf

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English?]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity

Author : Alice Stevenson
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787351424

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Scattered Finds by Alice Stevenson Pdf

Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide. These finds included unique discoveries at iconic sites such as the tombs of ancient Egypt's first rulers at Abydos, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s city of Tell el-Amarna and rich Roman Era burials in the Fayum. Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post-independence Ghana. By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century, Alice Stevenson presents new ideas about the development of archaeology, museums and the construction of Egyptian heritage. She also addresses the legacy of these practices, raises questions about the nature of the authority over such heritage today, and argues for a stronger ethical commitment to its stewardship. Praise for Scattered Finds 'Scattered Finds is a remarkable achievement. In charting how British excavations in Egypt dispersed artefacts around the globe, at an unprecedented scale, Alice Stevenson shows us how ancient objects created knowledge about the past while firmly anchored in the present. No one who reads this timely book will be able to look at an Egyptian antiquity in the same way again.' Professor Christina Riggs, UEA

Author : Christopher Green,Jens Daehner,Silvia Loreti
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892369775

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Modern Antiquity by Christopher Green,Jens Daehner,Silvia Loreti Pdf

This illustrated book focuses on the aesthetic impact ancient art had on twentieth-century artists Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia between 1906 and 1936.

Author : Ralph Rosen,Ineke Sluiter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047400738

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Andreia by Ralph Rosen,Ineke Sluiter Pdf

This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia, the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations. This book is of interest to students of the classical world, the history of values, gender studies, and cultural historians.

Author : Nick Fisher,Hans Van Wees
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589106

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Aristocracy in Antiquity by Nick Fisher,Hans Van Wees Pdf

The words 'aristocrats', 'aristocracy' and 'aristocratic values' appear in many a study of ancient history and culture. Sometimes these terms are used with a precise meaning. More often they are casual shorthand for 'upper class', 'ruling elite' and 'high standards'. This book brings together 12 new studies by an impressive international cast of specialists. It demonstrates not only that true aristocracies were rare in the ancient world, but also that the modern use of 'aristocracy' in a looser sense is misleading. The word comes with connotations derived from medieval and modern history. Antiquity, it is here argued, was different. An introductory chapter by the editors argues that 'aristocracy' is rarely a helpful concept for the analysis of political struggles, of historical developments or of ideology. The editors call instead for close study of the varied nature of social inequalities and relationships in particular times and places. The following eleven chapters explore and in most cases challenge the common assumption that hereditary 'aristocrats' who derive much of their status, privilege and power from their ancestors are identifiable at most times and places in the ancient world. They question, too, the related notion that deep ideological divisions existed between 'aristocratic values', such as hospitality, generosity and a disdain for commerce or trade, and the norms and ideals of lower or 'middling' classes. They do so by detailed analysis of archaeological and literary evidence for the rise and nature of elites and leisure classes, diverse elite strategies, and political conflicts in a variety of states across the Mediterranean. Chapters deal with archaic and classical Athens, Samos, Aigina and Crete; the Greek 'colonial' settlements such as Sicily; archaic Rome and central Italy; and the Roman empire under the Principate.

Author : Michael Denis Biddiss,Maria Wyke
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : IND:30000067352629

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The Uses and Abuses of Antiquity by Michael Denis Biddiss,Maria Wyke Pdf

This multi-disciplinary volume brings together essays illustrating the diversity of forms in which the legacy of Antiquity has been used, and abused, by the Modern West. Here classicists and non-classicists combine to show how historiography, anthropology, philosophy, political thought, archaeology, poetry, drama, the novel, music, architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, and film can be rewardingly juxtaposed as sites rich in the appropriation of Greco-Roman culture. The book has a chronological span running from the 17th to the late-20th century, and it ranges geographically from Britain to Europe and the USA. The authors remind us that it is often not the past itself so much as constructed images thereof which do most to mould our cultural consciousness. The collection discloses the pluralism and flexibility of Antiquity as an important modern symbolic source, and the variety of socio-cultural circumstances which have oriented us towards it. At many points these essays also analyse signs of a certain desire for release from a tradition viewed as troublesome and constraining. Yet they also tend to confirm that, whenever we seek to escape classical culture, we are still likely to be held within its trammels - that, even when we think that we have thrown it off, we seem fated to remain within its protean thrall.