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9780807821435 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $59.95
Art and the Roman Viewer presents a fresh analysis of a major intellectual problem in the history of art: why did the arts of Late Antiquity move away from classical naturalism towards spiritual abstraction? Arguing from a close examination of ancient art images and texts, Jas Elsner shows how an understanding of Roman viewing practices greatly deepens our insight into this fundamental transformation. The sophisticated arts of the early empire, such as Pompeian painting, sculpted reliefs and silverware, entertain the potential for irony, parody, and deconstruction. By contrast, the symbolic arts of the Christian empire, notably the mosaics of Ravenna, eschew irony, while complexity remains, indeed intensifies, as multiple meanings compete to enrich a fundamentally sacred truth. By addressing the subtleties inherent in ancient viewing, this study embarks on a quest to enrich our understanding of an era of profound artistic change.
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9780521453547 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Art and the Roman Viewer presents a fresh analysis of a major intellectual problem in the history of art: why did the arts of Late Antiquity move away from classical naturalism towards spiritual abstraction?
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9780521599528 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $28.00
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9780521430302 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $80.00
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9780192842657 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 14, 1999, cover price $39.95
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9780192842015 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $19.95
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9781861890207 | Reaktion Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.95
9780060422806, titled "Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage, to 1877" | 6th edition (Harpercollins College Div, November 1, 1990), cover price $26.66 | also contains Historical Viewpoints: Notable Articles from American Heritage, to 1877
Offers a selection of Tibetan Buddhist poetic writings that provide accessible insights into the spiritual tradition.
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9781570625503 | Shambhala Pubns, December 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers a selection of Tibetan Buddhist poetic writings that provide accessible insights into the spiritual tradition.
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
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9780195128161 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 16, 2001, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire.
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9780195171327 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 9, 2003, cover price $44.95
Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521662000 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 13, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780521665698 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 29, 2004, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: 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.
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9780691096773 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 26, 2007, cover price $77.00
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9780199291533 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 12, 2007, cover price $265.00
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9780199276028 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 26, 2007, cover price $200.00
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9780199250790 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 2, 2006, cover price $230.00
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9780199237913, titled "Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods" | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 25, 2008, cover price $83.00
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9783515094269 | Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh, December 31, 2009, cover price $78.00
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9780226519920 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 16, 2011, cover price $33.00
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9780873658645 | Peabody Museum of Archaeology &, February 4, 2013, cover price $60.00
Product Description: The practice of walking to a sacred space for personal and spiritual transformation has long held a place in the British imagination. Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain examines the intersections of the concept of pilgrimage and the visual imagination from the years 1790 to 1850...read more
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9781472466624 | New edition (Taylor & Francis, June 22, 2016), cover price $149.95 | About this edition: The practice of walking to a sacred space for personal and spiritual transformation has long held a place in the British imagination.
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9780521859820 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2007), cover price $140.00
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9781107499898 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 16, 2015, cover price $37.99
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