Narrative and Event in Ancient Art
Narrative and Event in Ancient Art
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Peter Holliday assembles new readings of several of the major monuments of antiquity, including the Pergamon Altar, the Apollo Belvedere, and the François Tomb, in the context of narrative representation. Focusing on an individual monument, each of the essays provides a model for construing ancient narrative structures through the application of methodological approaches relevant to the problems embedded in the distinctive objects produced by diverse societies. These essays also address the interplay between text and linguistic structure, style as a narrative force, time as a narrative clue, narrative through emblematic versus sequential images, and the observer as a necessary activator of the narrative. The essays demonstrate that visual images have an infinite capacity for verbal extension, forcing the viewer to take an active and creative role in a dialogue with an art work and to become, essentially, both critic and narrator in order to reinvent the experience it communicates.
Product details
February 1994Hardback
9780521430135
386 pages
263 × 184 × 30 mm
1.05kg
95 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print April 2004
Table of Contents
- Introduction Peter J. Holliday
- 1. Narrative and the Narmer palette Whitney Davis
- 2. Sennacherib's Lachish narratives John Malcolm Russel
- 3. Some reflections on the rhetoric of Aegean and Egyption art Nanno Marinatos
- 4. Narrative and image in the attic vase paining: Ajax and Kassandra at the Trojan Palladion Joan Breton Connelly
- 5. Narration and allusion in the Hellenistic Baroque Andrew Stewart
- 6. Narrative structures in the François tomb Peter J. Holliday
- 7. Some new grounds for narrative: Marcus Antonius's base (the Ara Domitti Ahenobarbi) and republican biographies Ann Kuttner
- 8. Reading the Augustan city Diane Favro
- 9. The Gemma Augustea: ideology, rhetorical imagery, and the creation of a dynastic narrative John Pollini
- 10. The 'Cena Trimalchionis' and biographical narration in Roman Middle-Class art Jane Whitehead.
