Peter J. Holliday (Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Cla

Power, Image, and Memory

Historical Subjects in Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Power, Image, and Memory examines how leaders and societies have used works of art commemorating historical events to shape collective memory. Through iconic artworks over centuries and across the globe, it explores the power of art to affirm cultural identities and thereby mold social groups and nations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 277
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 190mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9780190901080
• ISBN-10: 019090108X
• Artikelnr.: 69191463

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Holliday is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, California State University, Long Beach. Issues concerning the reception and appropriation of artistic sources, of how one culture interprets and utilizes the artistic practices of another, inform his books and articles in the Art Bulletin, American Journal of Archaeology, Etruscan Studies, J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, and other scholarly venues. He has received awards from the American Academy in Rome, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One
The Victory Stele of Naram-Sîn:
The Genesis of a Commemorative Tradition
Chapter Two
The Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel:
Message Control in Ancient Egypt
Chapter Three
The Alexander Mosaic:
Democracy and Dynasty in Greek Commemorative Practice
Chapter Four
The Column of Trajan:
Images of Power at Empire's Center and Edge
Chapter Five
The Bayeux Embroidery:
Threads of Memory in Medieval England
Chapter Six
The Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace:
Unscrolling the Warrior Ethos in Medieval Japan
Chapter Seven
The Battle of San Romano:
Painting and the Perpetuation of Memory in Renaissance Florence
Chapter Eight
The Benin Plaques:
Displaced Memories of an African Empire
Chapter Nine
The Hünername:
Identity and Legacy at the Ottoman Court
Chapter Ten
The Surrender of Breda:
Private Memory and Public Gesture in Baroque Spain
Chapter Eleven
The Death of General Wolfe:
Fashioning Imperial and Colonial Identities in the Americas
Chapter Twelve
Guernica:
Modernism and Picasso's "Blasted Allegory"
Conclusions
Into the History of Art
Bibliography
Index