Power, Image, and Memory
Historical Subjects in Art
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 June 2024
- ISBN 9780190901080
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 249x188x30 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 color photos; 24 b&w photos 513
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Short description:
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.
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Those who write history determine its narrative, whether through written text or through the visual language of art and public monuments. Power, Image, and Memory examines a wide variety of artistic traditions, showing how art commemorating historical events can shape collective memory, and with it, the identities of social groups and nations.
From the Mesopotamians to the present day, leaders and societies have used art to frame and memorialize important events. This account establishes a dialogue among traditions in a series of case studies, ranging from the reliefs at Ramses' temple at Abu Simbel and the ancient Greek "Alexander Mosaic" to the Heian Period Japanese scroll of the Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, the Benin Bronzes, Diego Vel--zquez's Surrender at Breda, and Picasso's Guernica. Weaving together meticulous historic detail, theory, and visual analysis, this volume offers a complex picture of the power of art and memory, as well as of the life of these monuments and messages over time, distanced from their original cultures and context. With insights relevant to contemporary debates reexamining historic monuments, Power, Image, and Memory sheds new light on the power of art to shape social memory and identity.
"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 them. From 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."
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One
The Victory Stele of Naram-S--n:
The Genesis of a Commemorative Tradition
Chapter Two
The Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel:
Message Control in Ancient Egypt
Chapter Three
The Alexander Mosaic:
Democracy and Dynasty in Greek Commemorative Practice
Chapter Four
The Column of Trajan:
Images of Power at Empire's Center and Edge
Chapter Five
The Bayeux Embroidery:
Threads of Memory in Medieval England
Chapter Six
The Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace:
Unscrolling the Warrior Ethos in Medieval Japan
Chapter Seven
The Battle of San Romano:
Painting and the Perpetuation of Memory in Renaissance Florence
Chapter Eight
The Benin Plaques:
Displaced Memories of an African Empire
Chapter Nine
The H--nername:
Identity and Legacy at the Ottoman Court
Chapter Ten
The Surrender of Breda:
Private Memory and Public Gesture in Baroque Spain
Chapter Eleven
The Death of General Wolfe:
Fashioning Imperial and Colonial Identities in the Americas
Chapter Twelve
Guernica:
Modernism and Picasso's "Blasted Allegory"
Conclusions
Into the History of Art
Bibliography
Index
