Power, image, and memory : historical subjects in art / Peter J. Holliday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holliday, Peter James, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History in art.

Power (Social sciences) in art.

Memorialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Those who write history determine its narrative, whether through written text or through the visual language of art and public monuments. 'Power, Image, and Memory' examines a wide variety of artistic traditions, showing how art commemorating historical events can shape collective memory, and with it, the identities of social groups and nations.

Contents:

Cover

Power, Image, and Memory

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: History into Art

1. The Victory Stele of Naram-​Sîn: The Genesis of a Commemorative Tradition

2. The Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel: Message Control in Ancient Egypt

3. The Alexander Mosaic: Commemorative Practice in Greek Polis and Macedonian Empire

4. The Column of Trajan: Images of Power at Rome's Center and Periphery

5. The Bayeux Embroidery: Stitching New Identities in Medieval England

6. Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace: Unscrolling the Warrior Ethos of Medieval Japan

7. The Battle of San Romano: Painting and the Perpetuation of Memory in Renaissance Florence

8. The Benin Plaques: Displaced Memories of an African Empire

9. The Hünernāme: Shaping Identity and Ensuring Legacy at the Ottoman Court

10. The Surrender of Breda: Public Gesture and Private Memory in Baroque Spain

11. The Death of General Wolfe: Fashioning Imperial and Colonial Identities in the Americas

12. Guernica: Modernism and Picasso's Blasted Allegory

Conclusions and Coda: Art into History

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 27, 2023).

ISBN:

9780190901110

019090111X

9780190901097

0190901098

9780190901103

0190901101

OCLC:

1410823982