The frame in classical art : a cultural history /
The frame in classical art : a cultural history /
edited by Verity Platt and Michael Squire.
- New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 697 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Framing the Frame -- Framing the visual in Greek and Roman antiquity: an introduction / Framing Pictorial Space -- -- Introduction / The frames of Greek painted pottery / Unframing the representation: the frontal face in Athenian vase painting / Framing the Roman 'still life': Campanian wall painting and the frames of make-believe / Framing Bodies -- -- Introduction / Framing Archaic Greek sculpture: figure, ornament and script / Framing and social identity in Roman portrait statues / Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi / Framing the Sacred: Introduction / Framing divine bodies in Greek art / How the Gauls broke the frame: the political and theological impact of taking battle scenes off Greek temples / Visual ontologies: style, archaism and framing in the construction of the sacred in the western tradition Framing Texts -- -- Introduction / Framing technologies in Hero and Ptolemy / Writing, reading, and seeing between the lines: framing late-antique inscriptions as texts and images / Envoi: framing 'antiquity' / Verity Platt and Michael Squire -- Verity Platt ; -- Clemente Marconi ; -- Guy Hedreen ; -- Michael Squire -- Michael Squire ; -- Nikolaus Dietrich ; -- Jennifer Trimble ; -- Verity Platt -- Verity Platt ; -- Milette Gaifman ; -- Robin Osborne ; -- Jaś Elsner -- Michael Squire ; -- Courtney Roby ; -- Sean V. Leatherbury ; -- Rebecca Zorach.
"The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase- and frescopainting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within"--
9781316946152 9781316945834
Art, Classical--Themes, motives.
Boundaries in art.
Electronic Books.
N5610 / .F736 2017
Includes bibliographies and index.
Framing the Frame -- Framing the visual in Greek and Roman antiquity: an introduction / Framing Pictorial Space -- -- Introduction / The frames of Greek painted pottery / Unframing the representation: the frontal face in Athenian vase painting / Framing the Roman 'still life': Campanian wall painting and the frames of make-believe / Framing Bodies -- -- Introduction / Framing Archaic Greek sculpture: figure, ornament and script / Framing and social identity in Roman portrait statues / Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi / Framing the Sacred: Introduction / Framing divine bodies in Greek art / How the Gauls broke the frame: the political and theological impact of taking battle scenes off Greek temples / Visual ontologies: style, archaism and framing in the construction of the sacred in the western tradition Framing Texts -- -- Introduction / Framing technologies in Hero and Ptolemy / Writing, reading, and seeing between the lines: framing late-antique inscriptions as texts and images / Envoi: framing 'antiquity' / Verity Platt and Michael Squire -- Verity Platt ; -- Clemente Marconi ; -- Guy Hedreen ; -- Michael Squire -- Michael Squire ; -- Nikolaus Dietrich ; -- Jennifer Trimble ; -- Verity Platt -- Verity Platt ; -- Milette Gaifman ; -- Robin Osborne ; -- Jaś Elsner -- Michael Squire ; -- Courtney Roby ; -- Sean V. Leatherbury ; -- Rebecca Zorach.
"The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase- and frescopainting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within"--
9781316946152 9781316945834
Art, Classical--Themes, motives.
Boundaries in art.
Electronic Books.
N5610 / .F736 2017