Art and text in Roman culture / edited by Jaś Elsner.

Other author Elsner, Jaś.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [England] ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Descriptionxii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge studies in new art history and criticism
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism. ^A315459
Contents Stories one might tell of Roman art : reading Trajan's column and the Tibeius cup / Valérie Huet -- Inventing imperium : texts and the propaganda of monuments in Augustan Rome / Jaś Elsner -- Even better than the real thing : a tale of two cities / Don Fowler -- Vt figura poesis : writing art and the art of writing in Augustan poetry / Andrew Laird -- Representing metamorphosis / Alison Sharrock -- Statues, mirrors, gods : controlling images in Apuleius / Yun Lee Too -- Empire of adults : the representation of children on Trajan's arch at Beneventum / Sarah Currie -- Torturer's apprentice : Parrhasius and the limits of art / Helen Morales -- "In commemorationem mortuorum" : test and image along the 'steets of tombs' / Michael Koortbojian -- Footnote : representation in the "Villa of the Mysteries" / John Henderson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 350-377) and index.
LCCN 95016563
ISBN0521430305 (hc)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks N5760 .A73 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold