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Roman eyes : visuality & subjectivity in art & text /

In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elsner, Jaś
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Between Mimesis and Divine Power: Visuality in the Greco-Roman World
  • pt. 1. Ancient Discourses of Art. Image and Ritual: Pausanias and the Sacred Culture of Greek Art
  • Discourses of Style: Connoisseurship in Pausanias and Lucian
  • Ekphrasis and the Gaze: From Roman Poetry to Domestic Wall Painting
  • pt. 2. Ways of Viewing. Viewing and Creativity: Ovid's Pygmalion as Viewer
  • Viewer as Image: Intimations of Narcissus
  • Viewing and Decadence: Petronius' Picture Gallery
  • Genders of Viewing: Visualizing Woman in the Casket of Projecta
  • Viewing the Gods: The Origins of the Icon in the Visual Culture of the Roman East
  • Viewing and Resistance: Art and Religion in Dura Europos
  • Epilogue: From Diana via Venus to Isis: Viewing the Deity with Apuleius.