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Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph Jas Elsner

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph By Jas Elsner

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph by Jas Elsner


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Summary

Explores the art of the Roman Empire from the 'Second Sophist' to the era of late antiquity and the rise of Christianity and discusses vases, murals, statues, and masonry in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. In the OXFORD HISTORY OF ART series.

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph Summary

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph by Jas Elsner

Western culture saw some of the most significant and innovative developments take place during the passage from antiquity to the middle ages. This stimulating new book investigates the role of the visual arts as both reflections and agents of those changes. It tackles two inter-related periods of internal transformation within the Roman Empire: the phenomenon known as the 'Second Sophistic' (c. ad 100300)two centuries of self-conscious and enthusiastic hellenism, and the era of late antiquity (c. ad 250450) when the empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity. Vases, murals, statues, and masonry are explored in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, Jas Elsner presents a fresh and challenging account of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins. 'a highly individual work ...wonderful visual and comparative analysis ...I can think of no other general book on Roman art that deals so elegantly and informatively with the theme of visuality and visual desire. ' Professor Natalie Boymel Kampen, Barnard College, New York 'exciting and original ...a vibrant impression of creative energy and innovation held in constant tension by the persistence of more traditional motifs and techniques. Elsner constantly surprises and intrigues the reader by approaching familiar material in new ways.' Professor Averil Cameron, Keble College, Oxford.

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph Reviews

a highly individual work ... wonderful visual and comparative analysis ... I can think of no other general book on Roman art that deals so elegantly and informatively with the theme of visuality and visual desire. Professor Natalie Boymel Kampen, Barnard College, New York exciting and original ... a vibrant impression of creative energy and innovation held in constant tension by the persistence of more traditional motifs and techniques. Elsner constantly surprises and intrigues the reader by approaching familiar material in new ways. Professor Averil Cameron, Keble College, Oxford

Table of Contents

Part 1 Images and power: a visual culture; art and imperial power. Part II Images and society: art and social life; centre and periphery; art and death. Part III Images and transformation: art and the past - antiquarian eclecticism; art and religion; epilogue; art and culture - cost, value and the discourse of art; afterword - some futures of Christian art.

Additional information

GOR003111626
9780192842015
0192842013
Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph by Jas Elsner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19981201
316
N/A
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