Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality
Tonio Hölscher
Abstract
This book aims to explore the aspects of visuality in Greek and Roman culture, comprising the visual appearance of images as well as the reality of the social world. The face-to-face societies of ancient Greece and Rome were to a high degree based on civic presence and direct, immediate social interaction in which visual appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. The six chapters of the book are dedicated to action in space, memory over time, the appearance of the person, conceptualization of reality, and, finally, presentification and decor as fundamental cate ... More
Keywords: visuality, image, public image, public architecture, representation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520294936 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: January 2019 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520294936.001.0001 |
