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The Language of Images in Roman Art

The Language of Images in Roman Art

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Art HistoryClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 0521662001
ISBN13: 9780521662000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 4 2004
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Tonio Hölscher develops a new theoretical concept for understanding the Roman art of images by establishing a connection between artistic forms and content and expressions of ideology--such as the glorification of state and ruler, war and triumph. A large role is played here by the reception of earlier images from Greek art. Roman art therefore appears to operate as a semantic system which, from an interdisciplinary perspective, can be compared with the forms of Roman literature as well as the language of images of other cultures.

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