Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art: Rethinking visual ontologies in Classical Antiquity

by: Dietrich, N. Squire, M.

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About this book
How does ?decoration? work? What are the relations between ?figurative? and ?ornamental? modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. On the one hand, we argue, Greek and Roman materials have proved instrumental in shaping modern assumptions. On the other hand, those ideologies are fundamentally removed from ancient ideas: an ancient perspective can therefore shed light on larger aesthetic debates about what images are – or indeed what they should be.
This anthology of specially commissioned essays explores a variety of case studies (both literary and art historical alike): it discusses materials from across the ancient Mediterranean, and from Geometric art all the way through to late antiquity; the book also tackles questions of ?figure? and ?ornament? in relation to different media – including painting, free-standing statues, relief sculpture, mosaics and architecture. A particular feature of the volume lies in bringing together different national academic traditions, building a bridge between formalist approaches and broader cultural historical perspectives.

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Michael Squire and Nikolaus Dietrich
Notes on contributors

?To haunt, to startle, and way-lay?: Approaching ornament and figure in Graeco-Roman art

Michael Squire
Figürlicher Schmuck in der griechischen Architektur zwischen Dekor und Repräsentation

Tonio Hölscher
Ornamental and formulaic patterns: The semantic significance of form in early Greek vase-painting and Homeric epic

Jonas Grethlein
Ornament und Design: Attisch geometrische Figuralgefäße und Gefäße mit plastischem Dekor

Annette Haug
Armure et ornement dans l?imagerie attique

François Lissarrague
Beneath the handles of Attic vases

Nikolina Kéi
Order and contingency in Archaic Greek ornament and figure

Nikolaus Dietrich
Ornament, incipience and narrative: Geometric to Classical

Richard Neer
Of sponges and stones: Matter and ornament in Roman painting

Verity Platt
Esteemed ornament: An overlooked value for approaching Roman visual culture

Nicola Barham
Delectari varietate: Zur Erklärung der repetitiven Darstellung auf dem ‚Puteal Tegel?

Arne Reinhardt
Figure and ornament, death and transformation in the Tomb of the Haterii

Jennifer Trimble
Ornament, figure and mise en abyme on Roman sarcophagi

Jaś Elsner
Aus der Perspektive der römischen Bodenmosaiken: Ornamentalisierte Figuren oder figuralisierte Ornamente?

Susanne Muth
 

Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art: Rethinking visual ontologies in Classical Antiquity

by: Dietrich, N. Squire, M.

• ISBN-13: 9783110460155 / 978-3-11-046015-5
• ISBN-03: 3110460157 / 3-11-046015-7
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2018

Price: 127,15 EURO

1 copy in stock