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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 May 2018
- ISBN 9780198768630
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 238x168x16 mm
- Weight 628 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 180 colour and black & white illustrations; 3 maps 0
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Short description:
A beautifully illustrated, new edition of the best single-volume guide to Roman and early Christian art. Provides an introduction to the great diversity of artistic styles during the period, and their context.
MoreLong description:
The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes.
Jas' Elsner's ground-breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins.
This second edition includes a new discussion of the Eurasian context of Roman art, an updated bibliography, and new, full colour illustrations.
Jaś Elsner's ground - breaking account discusses both Roman and early Christian art in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion ... he presents a fresh and challenging interpretation of an extraordinarily rich cultural crucible in which many fundamental developments of later European art had their origins.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part I - Images and Power
A Visual Culture
Art and Imperial Power
Part II - Images and Society
Art and Social Life
Centre and Periphery
Art and Death
Part III - Images and Transformation
Art and the Past: Antiquarian Eclecticism
Art and Religion
The Eurasian Context
Epilogue
Art and Culture: Cost, Value, and the Discourse of Art
Afterword: Some Futures of Christian Art
Notes
List of Illustrations
Bibliographic Essay
Timeline
Essay
