Power, Image, and Memory by Peter J Holliday
Power, Image, and Memory examines how leaders and societies have used works of art commemorating historical events to shape collective memory. Through iconic artworks over centuries and across the globe, it explores the power of art to affirm cultural identities and thereby mold social groups and nations.
"In this nimble, extraordinarily wide-ranging, and original work, Peter Holliday offers twelve case studies in how works of narrative art can promote and serve those in power, not just commemorating historical events but in essence creating themFrom the Stele of Naram-Sin to Guernica, from New Kingdom Egypt to Medieval Japan, from ancient Greeks to Renaissance Florentines, Holliday engages not merely the history of art, but the art of history-how art represents and reconstructs history and persuades the viewer of certain political realities. Well-informed and highly readable, it will find its place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political art through time and around the world." * Jeffrey M. Hurwit, author of The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles *
"In this beautifully written and timely appraisal of some of the world's most famous-and intentionally influential-works of art, Holliday captures the force of collective artistic actions and their ability to shape historical recollection from antiquity to modernity." * John Hopkins, author of Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape *
The book affirms ideas about power relations and social hierarchies that can be firmly planted yet also waver due to changes in context and contemporary meaning...the volume will interest scholars of art history, social history, collective memory, and identity. Highly recommended. * Choice *
"In this beautifully written and timely appraisal of some of the world's most famous-and intentionally influential-works of art, Holliday captures the force of collective artistic actions and their ability to shape historical recollection from antiquity to modernity." * John Hopkins, author of Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape *
The book affirms ideas about power relations and social hierarchies that can be firmly planted yet also waver due to changes in context and contemporary meaning...the volume will interest scholars of art history, social history, collective memory, and identity. Highly recommended. * Choice *
Peter J. Holliday is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, California State University, Long Beach. Issues concerning the reception and appropriation of artistic sources, of how one culture interprets and utilizes the artistic practices of another, inform his books and articles in the Art Bulletin, American Journal of Archaeology, Etruscan Studies, J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, and other scholarly venues. He has received awards from the American Academy in Rome, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190901080 |
| ISBN 10 | 019090108X |
| Title | Power, Image, and Memory |
| Author | Peter J Holliday |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2024-06-19 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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