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Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

Between Art and Social Reality

Tonio Hölscher author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:3rd Aug '18

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Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.

"[Any] omissions do nothing to detract from the theoretical richness and the numerous insights that fill all the pages of this deeply suggestive and wonderfully dense work of scholarship." * Gnomon *

ISBN: 9780520294936

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 38mm

Weight: 907g

426 pages