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Unbound from Rome : art and craft in a fluid landscape, ca. 650-250 BCE / John North Hopkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopkins, John North, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture and society--Rome.
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture, Roman.
- Art and society--Rome.
- Art and society.
- Art, Roman.
- Decoration and ornament, Roman.
- Decoration and ornament--Social aspects--Rome.
- Decoration and ornament.
- Rome--Antiquities.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages) : 136 illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), black and white plans
- Other Title:
- Art and craft in a fluid landscape, circa 650-250 BCE
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Moving beyond the misleading catchall label 'Roman,' John North Hopkins aims to untangle the many peoples whose diverse cultures and traditions contributed to Rome's visual culture over a four-hundred-year time span across the first millennium BCE. Hopkins carefully reconsiders some of the period's most iconic works by way of the many practices and peoples bound up with them. Some of these include the extraordinary and complex effort to build the Temple of Jupiter; the creative actions and diverse encounters tied to luxury objects like the Ficoroni Cista; and the important meanings held by sacred temple sculpture and votive offerings through their making and subsequent practices of devotion. A key purpose of this book is to question an idea of Rome that has focused on elite production and the textual record; Hopkins instead calls attention to the lesser-known-- often silenced-- actors who were integral players"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Making space for makers : recovering presence, capability, action, and contribution
- Making space for many makers and materials : compounding mobile copresences
- Beyond control : time, accumulation, and multiplication
- Meaning unmoored : creative assemblage and entropic potentials in the Ficoroni Cista
- The quiet, effective disorder of sacromaterial practice
- Unending views.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-232) and index.
- Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on May 4, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 0-300-30602-4
- OCLC:
- 1588482006
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