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9780520219762 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $85.00
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9780520248151 | Univ of California Pr, April 1, 2006, cover price $45.00
Hardcover:
9780810942639 | Harry N Abrams Inc, May 1, 2003, cover price $35.00
Product Description: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question―and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780520200241 | Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1998, cover price $85.00
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9780520229044, titled "Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 B.C.-A.D. 250" | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans?
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?
Paperback:
9780521599528 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $28.00
Product Description: In this iconological study, the author demonstrates the invalidity of the current interpretation of the relief on the so-called Peleus and Thetis sarcophagus in the Villa Albani in Rome, an interpretation which goes back to Winckelmann...read more
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9789050632461 | Brill Academic Pub, May 1, 1994, cover price $76.00 | About this edition: In this iconological study, the author demonstrates the invalidity of the current interpretation of the relief on the so-called Peleus and Thetis sarcophagus in the Villa Albani in Rome, an interpretation which goes back to Winckelmann.
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9780472101016 | Univ of Michigan Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $39.50
Paperback:
9780472081240 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, November 15, 1990), cover price $28.95
Hardcover:
9780801415586 | Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $47.50
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