Women and visual replication in Roman imperial art and culture / Jennifer Trimble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trimble, Jennifer, 1965-

Series:

Greek culture in the Roman world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait sculpture, Greco-Roman.

Women in art.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in art.

Social status in art.

Art and society--Rome.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

xi, 486 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

"Why did Roman portrait statues, famed for their individuality, repeatedly employ the same body forms? The complex issue of the Roman copying of Greek 'originals' has so far been studied primarily from a formal and aesthetic viewpoint. Jennifer Trimble takes a broader perspective, considering archaeological, social historical and economic factors, and examines how these statues were made, bought and seen. To understand how Roman visual replication worked, Trimble focuses on the 'Large Herculaneum Woman' statue type, a draped female body particularly common in the second century CE and surviving in about two hundred examples, to assess how sameness helped to communicate a woman's social identity. She demonstrates how visual replication in the Roman Empire thus emerged as a means of constructing social power and articulating dynamic tensions between empire and individual localities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Origins; 2. Production; 3. Replication; 4. Portraiture; 5. Space; 6. Difference; 7. Endings; Appendix. Dating the statues; Catalogue; Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521825153

0521825156

OCLC:

149240687

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