Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art - Sarah Bassett

Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art

Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking

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Buch | Hardcover
350 Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-46632-5 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art: Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking proposes a new approach to the enduring question of how best to see and understand the art of late antiquity.
How do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual production has been defined as stylistically abstract and emotionally spiritual, and therefore elusive. But this is a perception which – in her path-breaking new book – Sarah Bassett boldly challenges, offering two novel lines of interpretative inquiry. She first argues, by focusing on the art of late antiquity in late nineteenth-century Viennese intellectual and artistic circles, that that period's definition of late antique form was in fact a response to contemporaneous political concerns, anticipating modernist thinking and artistic practice. She then suggests that late antique viewers never actually abandoned a sense of those mimetic goals that characterized Greek and Roman habits of representation. This interpretative shift is transformative because it allows us to understand the full range and richness of late antique visual experience.

Sarah Bassett is Associate Professor of Art History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of The Urban Image of Late Antique Constantinople (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Constantinople (2022). Her research and writing interests include late antique urbanism, collecting and display in the ancient world, and the historiography of late antique and Byzantine art.

Introduction; Part I. Moderns: 1. Exploring the 'Dark Continent': Franz Wickhoff, Alois Riegl, and the first definitions of late antiqute art; 2. Rome on the Danube: late antique art and Austrian identity; 3. East meets West: archaeology, art history, and the crystallization of late antique art; 4. Building vocabulary in the 'Epoch of the Great Spiritual'; Part II. Ancients: 5. The styles of mimesis; 6. Storytelling and the 'illusive similitude of life'; 7. Ceremonial images and the 'amplification of good things'; 8. Portraits civic and sacred; 9. Conclusion: an art of persuasion.

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Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 175 x 246 mm
Gewicht 730 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10 1-009-46632-1 / 1009466321
ISBN-13 978-1-009-46632-5 / 9781009466325
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