Image, Text, Stone: Intermedial Perspectives on Graeco-Roman Sculpture (Materiale Textkulturen, 36) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 3110775697 ISBN 13: 9783110775693

Verlag: De Gruyter, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

This edited volume explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. Through its choice of authors, disciplinary backgrounds are deliberately merged in order to bridge the traditional gap between archaeologists, epigraphists and philologists, who for a long time studied statues, material inscriptions and literary epigrams within the closely confined borders of their individual disciplines. Through its choice of objects, privileging works of which there are significant material remains, through its inclusion of all kinds of figural-cum-inscriptional designs, ranging from grand sculpture to reliefs and ‘decorative’ marble-objects, and through its methodological emphasis on ‘close viewing’ (and reading!) of individual objects, this volume focuses on the materiality of both sculpture and inscription. This perspective is enriched by two comparative chapters on inscribing Greek vases and Roman walls (graffiti). The intermediality of image and inscription is envisaged from various thematic angles, including the intricacies of combining image and epigram (both materially and in literary projection), the original production and reception of inscribed sculpture in its ‘long life’, the viewing and ‘reading’ of sculpture in a space of movement, the issue of (re-)naming statues, and the image and inscription in its social and gender-historical context.

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Nikolaus Dietrich and Johannes Fouquet, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

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This book explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. By studying a wide range of material, from grand sculpture to humble reliefs, scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds explore thematic aspects including the interplay of image and epigram, viewing and ‘reading’ sculpture in space, the issue of (re-)naming statues, image and inscription seen from the perspective of social status or gender, and the ‘long life’ of inscribed sculpture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3110775697
• ISBN 13: 9783110775693
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 382
• Herausgeber: Dietrich Nikolaus, Fouquet Johannes
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; info@degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; Berlin; 10785; Deutschland