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Author : Herbert Inhaber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000057316097
More than 1,200 citations, ranging from making masks in kindergarten to academic books on the anthropological theory of masks.
Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521865227
A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances.
Author : Timothy V. Dugan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476628356
Ajax, the archetypal Greek warrior, has over the years been trivialized as a peripheral character in the classics through Hollywood representations, and by the use of his name on household cleaning products. Examining a broad range of sources—from film, art and literature to advertising and sports—this study of the “Bulwark of the Achaeans” and his mythological image redefines his presence in Western culture, revealing him as the predominant voice in The Iliad and in myriad works across the classical canon.
Author : Eric C. Rath
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674021207
This is a description of how memories of the past become traditions, as well as the role of these traditions in the institutional development of the noh theater from its beginnings in the 14th century through the late 20th century.
Author : Harry Thurston Peck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Classical dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112122679456
Author : Hans Belting
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691244594
A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual representation. Belting divides his book into three parts: faces as masks of the self, portraiture as a constantly evolving mask in Western culture, and the fate of the face in the age of mass media. Referencing a vast array of sources, Belting's insights draw on art history, philosophy, theories of visual culture, and cognitive science. He demonstrates that Western efforts to portray the face have repeatedly failed, even with the developments of new media such as photography and film, which promise ever-greater degrees of verisimilitude. In spite of sitting at the heart of human expression, the face resists possession, and creative endeavors to capture it inevitably result in masks—hollow signifiers of the humanity they're meant to embody. From creations by Van Eyck and August Sander to works by Francis Bacon, Ingmar Bergman, and Chuck Close, Face and Mask takes a remarkable look at how, through the centuries, the physical visage has inspired and evaded artistic interpretation.
Author : Anthony Spalinger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004466111
In The Books behind the Masks Anthony Spalinger continues his work on the warrior kings of pharaonic Egypt. Here is covered their actual war records from the perspective of literature and the contemporary court-based society, especially with the eulogies.
Author : Simon Trussler,Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521603285
Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet.
Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Art, Classical
ISBN : UOM:39015069901414
Author : Stefanie Kiwi Menrath
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783839442562
Anonymity practices in electronic music culture have long been the object of journalistic and academic discourse. Yet anonymity itself is ephemeral and ontologically precarious. How can scholars research anonymous entities without impairing their anonymity, and what can they learn from their precarity? This study describes two projects of anonymity performance as forms of critical practice (Judith Butler/Michel Foucault) involving performative play with anonymity through the use of fake identities or collaborative persona imaginations. Adopting a reflexive and performative writing style, this performance ethnography calls for a radical performative turn and an ontological reflexivity in the cultural studies of music.
Author : John Mack
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009793907
Masks are a near-universal phenomenon, but the uses and meanings of masquerade vary greatly among cultures. Here, through revealing texts and a wide range of dramatic illustrations, a team of experts discusses the disparate traditions surrounding masks in eight principal areas: Africa, Oceania, Latin America, the Pacific northwest, Japan, classical Greece and Rome, Egypt, and Europe.
Author : Paul Zanker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520310018
This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials, including Greco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, coupled with artistic renderings, Paul Zanker forges the first comprehensive history of the visual representation of Greek and Roman intellectuals. He takes the reader from the earliest visual images of Socrates and Plato to the figures of Christ, the Apostles, and contemporaneous pagan and civic dignitaries. Through his interpretations of the postures, gestures, facial expressions, and stylistic changes of particular pieces, we come to know these great poets and philosophers through all of their various personas—the prophetic wise man, the virtuous democratic citizen, or the self-absorbed bon vivant. Zanker's analysis of how the iconography of influential thinkers and writers changed demonstrates the rise and fall of trends and the movement of schools of thought and belief, each successively embodying the most valued characteristics of the period and culture. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Author : John Pollini
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780806188164
Political image-making—especially from the Age of Augustus, when the Roman Republic evolved into a system capable of governing a vast, culturally diverse empire—is the focus of this masterful study of Roman culture. Distinguished art historian and classical archaeologist John Pollini explores how various artistic and ideological symbols of religion and power, based on Roman Republican values and traditions, were taken over or refashioned to convey new ideological content in the constantly changing political world of imperial Rome. Religion, civic life, and politics went hand in hand and formed the very fabric of ancient Roman society. Visual rhetoric was a most effective way to communicate and commemorate the ideals, virtues, and political programs of the leaders of the Roman State in an empire where few people could read and many different languages were spoken. Public memorialization could keep Roman leaders and their achievements before the eyes of the populace, in Rome and in cities under Roman sway. A leader’s success demonstrated that he had the favor of the gods—a form of legitimation crucial for sustaining the Roman Principate, or government by a “First Citizen.” Pollini examines works and traditions ranging from coins to statues and reliefs. He considers the realistic tradition of sculptural portraiture and the ways Roman leaders from the late Republic through the Imperial period were represented in relation to the divine. In comparing visual and verbal expression, he likens sculptural imagery to the structure, syntax, and diction of the Latin language and to ancient rhetorical figures of speech. Throughout the book, Pollini’s vast knowledge of ancient history, religion, literature, and politics extends his analysis far beyond visual culture to every aspect of ancient Roman civilization, including the empire’s ultimate conversion to Christianity. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of the relationship between artistic developments and political change in ancient Rome.
Author : Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Publisher : Author House
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781463492144
Ancient Africans, perhaps around 5500 BC, established a tradition based upon truth, goodness, beauty, and other immaterial and intangible aspects of things of worth. Believing all of God’s creations were forever linked, they focused on having good relations with and behaviors toward fellow human beings and with nature – both for the purpose of reaching a heaven afterlife. Out of these concepts arose the sense of community, including the practice of no person being left behind. Echoes of Ancient African Values discusses who Ancient Africans were as a people; their genius and creative ways of thinking; their philosophical and spiritual foundations; and their world shaping achievements. Unfortunately, peoples throughout the world have failed to realize or acknowledge the fact that Ancient Africans have produced the most brilliance civilization and culture the world has ever known. This applies whether the measure is by significance, greatness, or numbers. The fashioning of such brilliance inside high morals not only transcended space and time but also designed sublime echoes. A major premise of this book is that these echoes were extremely instrumental in enabling Ancient African slaves to survive their hellish situation as well as having ongoingly contributed to the recovery of Black Americans from the effects of slavery. Numerous examples are given. Otherwise, what is stressed to all peoples in the world is that Ancient African Values contain workable answers for solving every type of problem concerning humanity.
Author : Maria Gerolemou,Lilia Diamantopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350101302
This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on the intersection between technological and cultural dynamics of mirrors. The international scholars brought together here explore critical questions around the mirror as artefact and the phenomenon of mirroring. Beside the common visual registration of an action or inaction, in a two dimensional and reversed form, various types of mirrors often possess special abilities which can produce a distorted picture of reality, serving in this way illusion and falsehood. Part I looks at a selection of theory from ancient writers, demonstrating the concern to explore these same questions in antiquity. Part II considers the role reflections can play in forming ideas of gender and identity. Beyond the everyday, we see in Part III how oracular mirrors and magical mirrors reveal the invisible divine – prosthetics that allow us to look where the eye cannot reach. Finally, Part IV considers mirrors' roles in displaying the visible and invisible in antiquity and since.