The frame in classical art : a cultural history / edited by Verity Platt and Michael Squire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Verity J. (Verity Jane), 1977- author, editor.

Squire, Michael, author, editor.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Classical--Themes, motives.

Art, Classical.

Boundaries in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 697 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

I. Framing the Frame: 1. Framing the visual in Greek and Roman antiquity: an introduction / Verity Platt and Michael Squire

II. Framing Pictorial Space: Introduction / Verity Platt ; 2. The frames of Greek painted pottery / Clemente Marconi ; 3. Unframing the representation: the frontal face in Athenian vase painting / Guy Hedreen ; 4. Framing the Roman 'still life': Campanian wall painting and the frames of make-believe / Michael Squire

III. Framing Bodies: Introduction / Michael Squire ; 5. Framing Archaic Greek sculpture: figure, ornament and script / Nikolaus Dietrich ; 6. Framing and social identity in Roman portrait statues / Jennifer Trimble ; 7. Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi / Verity Platt

IV. Framing the Sacred: Introduction / Verity Platt ; 8. Framing divine bodies in Greek art / Milette Gaifman ; 9. How the Gauls broke the frame: the political and theological impact of taking battle scenes off Greek temples / Robin Osborne ; 10. Visual ontologies: style, archaism and framing in the construction of the sacred in the western tradition Jaś Elsner

V. Framing Texts: Introduction / Michael Squire ; 11. Framing technologies in Hero and Ptolemy / Courtney Roby ; 12. Writing, reading, and seeing between the lines: framing late-antique inscriptions as texts and images / Sean V. Leatherbury ; 13. Envoi: framing 'antiquity' / Rebecca Zorach.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 604-678) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harold C. Putnam Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781316677155

131667715X

Publisher Number:

99984276183

40027288259

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.