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Author : Eugene J. Dwyer
Release : 2010
Genre : Archaeology and history
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Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pompeii's Living Statues by : Eugene J. Dwyer
Download or read book Pompeii's Living Statues written by Eugene J. Dwyer. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at contemporary views regarding the casts of victims from Mt. Vesuvius' eruption
Author : Paul Zanker
Release : 1999-01-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 618/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pompeii by : Paul Zanker
Download or read book Pompeii written by Paul Zanker. This book was released on 1999-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago. When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. its lava preserved not only the Pompeii of that time but a palimpsest of the city's history, visible traces of the different societies of Pompeii's past. Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture, disentangles these tantalizing traces to show us the urban images that marked Pompeii's development from country town to Roman imperial city. Exploring Pompeii's public buildings, its streets and gathering places, we witness the impact of religious changes, the renovation of theaters and expansion of athletic facilities, and the influence of elite families on the city's appearance. Through these stages, Zanker adeptly conjures a sense of the political and social meanings in urban planning and public architecture. The private houses of Pompeii prove equally eloquent, their layout, decor, and architectural detail speaking volumes about the life, taste, and desires of their owners. At home or in public, at work or at ease, these Pompeians and their world come alive in Zanker's masterly rendering. A provocative and original reading of material culture, his work is an incomparable introduction to urban life in antiquity.
Author : James M. Deem
Release : 2005
Genre : Excavations (Archaeology)
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Book Rating : 084/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bodies from the Ash by : James M. Deem
Download or read book Bodies from the Ash written by James M. Deem. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Fabrizio Pesando
Release : 2013
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 287/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pompeii by : Fabrizio Pesando
Download or read book Pompeii written by Fabrizio Pesando. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Pompeii: The Art of Living' explains and illustrates all peculiarities of Pompeian dwellings, rich middle class houses as well as the poor ones. The book details the dimensions of the rooms, the objects in those rooms, frescos, statues, marbles, vases, gardens; it reveals the secrets of ancient Pompeian everyday life - secrets that will surprise and delight.
Author : Sarah Betzer
Release : 2022-08-08
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 691/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Animating the Antique by : Sarah Betzer
Download or read book Animating the Antique written by Sarah Betzer. This book was released on 2022-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of artistic and aesthetic encounters. Moving across varied locations—among them Rome, Florence, Naples, London, Dresden, and Paris—Sarah Betzer explores a history that has yet to be written: that of the Janus-faced nature of interactions with the antique by which sculptures and beholders alike were caught between the promise of animation and the threat of mortification. Examining the traces of affective and transformative sculptural encounters, the book takes off from the decades marked by the archaeological, art-historical, and art-philosophical developments of the mid-eighteenth century and culminantes in fin de siècle anthropological, psychological, and empathic frameworks. It turns on two fundamental and interconnected arguments: that an eighteenth-century ontology of ancient sculpture continued to inform encounters with the antique well into the nineteenth century, and that by attending to the enduring power of this model, we can newly appreciate the distinctively modern terms of antique sculpture’s allure. As Betzer shows, these eighteenth-century developments had far-reaching ramifications for the making and beholding of modern art, the articulations of art theory, the writing of art history, and a significantly queer Nachleben of the antique. Bold and wide-ranging, Animating the Antique sheds light upon the work of myriad artists, in addition to that of writers ranging from Goethe and Winckelmann to Hegel, Walter Pater, and Vernon Lee. It will be especially welcomed by scholars and students working in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art history, art writing, and art historiography.
