Author : Athanasios Christou Papalexandrou
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780739107348
In The Visual Poetics of Power, Nassos Papalexandrou illuminates the early history of the tripod cauldron, the most sacred symbol of the Greeks. He also explores the performative dimensions of the figurative arts in the preliterate contexts of early Greek sanctuaries.
Author : Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1108422659
Explores the dynamic interactions among Latin poets, artists, and audiences in constructing and critiquing imperial power in Augustan Rome.
Author : James A. W. Heffernan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 2004-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226323145
Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. Over the ages its practitioners have created a museum of words about real and imaginary paintings and sculptures. In the first book ever to explore this museum, James Heffernan argues that ekphrasis stages a battle for mastery between the image and the word. Moving from the epics of Homer, Virgil, and Dante to contemporary American poetry, this book treats the history of struggle between rival systems of representation. Readable and well illustrated, this study of how poets have represented painting and sculpture is a major contribution to our understanding of the relation between the arts.
Author : Nandini B. Pandey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108529917
Augustus' success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar's deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum Augustum to rituals including triumphs and funerals. This book illuminates Roman subjects' vital role in creating and critiquing these images, in keeping with the Augustan poets' sustained exploration of audiences' active part in constructing verbal and visual meaning. From Vergil to Ovid, these poets publicly interpret, debate, and disrupt Rome's evolving political iconography, reclaiming it as the common property of an imagined republic of readers. In showing how these poets used reading as a metaphor for the mutual constitution of Augustan authority and a means of exercising interpretive libertas under the principate, this book offers a holistic new vision of Roman imperial power and its representation that will stimulate scholars and students alike.
Author : Thomas Patin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0816651450
A new understanding of visual rhetoric offers unique insights into issues of representation and identity
Author : Luther E. Vann
Publisher : Bright Skylark Book Products
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780972114271
: ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love is the product of two individuals¿ combined creative and spiritual visions. It features some 64 paintings by celebrated artist Luther E. Vann with more than approximately 50 accompanying poems and two essays by award-winning author Aberjhani. The art, spanning the early 1970s to 2007, expresses Vann¿s perception of spiritual principles active in the personal and pubic lives of people in New York and Savannah. Introductory essays comment on Vann¿s life and his art. The poems complement the art with themes that explore issues like war, homelessness, the nature of love, and expanded spiritual consciousness.
Author : Paul Zanker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780472081240
Examines the imperial mythology that was reflected by Roman art and architecture during the rule of Augustus Caesar
Author : Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : Museum for African Art/Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The visual arts exhibition, Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art, presents newly commissioned and recently produced works by seventeen South African artists. The artworks represent the artists' responses to a weeklong stay in New York and their visits with the international team of curators. The exhibition features various media including sculpture, drawing, photography, painting, installation, video, performance, and dance. The common thread throughout the exhibition is the higly personal point of departure of the artists' working methods that are informed by their varied experiences as South Africans. Volume I features an introduction by the exhibition curators, texts by David Brodie, Okwui Enwezor, Laurie Ann Farrell, Churchill Madikida, Tracy Murinik, Sophie Perryer, and theoretical essays by Liese van der Watt and Okwui Enwezor. Participating artists: Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Churchill Madikida, Mustafa Maluka, Thando Mama, Sams
Author : Paul Frosh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509532684
Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for how we reflect upon and act in a shared, everyday world of finite human existence. The Poetics of Digital Media explores the poetic work of media in digital culture. Developing an argument through close readings of overlooked or denigrated media objects – screenshots, tagging, selfies and more – the book reveals how media shape the taken-for-granted structures of our lives, and how they disclose our world through sudden moments of visibility and tangibility. Bringing us face to face with the conditions of our existence, it investigates how the ‘given’ world we inhabit is given through media. This book is important reading for students and scholars of media theory, philosophy of media, visual culture and media aesthetics.
Author : Victoria Rimell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1316368602
This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within an expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling.
