Part I: Ancient Discourses of Art

Elsner, Jaś

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Part I: Ancient Discourses of Art

Jaś Elsner

Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text

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Jaś Elsner

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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Part I: Ancient Discourses of Art

2. Image and Ritual: Pausanias and the Sacred Culture of Greek Art

3. Discourses of Style: Connoisseurship in Pausanias and Lucian

4. Ekphrasis and the Gaze: From Roman Poetry to Domestic Wall Painting

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BOOKRoman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text

Jaś Elsner

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-32006

In Roman Eyes, Jaś Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. The author draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they viewed art—their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs.

Author

Jaś Elsner

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Print publication date February 2024 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780691096773

EISBN 9780691240244

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