Image, text, stone : intermedial perspectives on Graeco-Roman sculpture /

Image, text, stone : intermedial perspectives on Graeco-Roman sculpture / edited by Nikolaus Dietrich and Johannes Fouquet. - Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022] - viii, 374 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. - Materiale Textkulturen, Band 36 2198-6932 ; .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wonder and surprise as responses to art. Beischriften and the drama of cognition / Andrej Petrovic -- The pragmatics of unnamed portraits / Catherine M. Keesling.

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).


Articles in English or German.

9783110775693

2022934868


Sculpture, Greek.
Sculpture, Roman.
Sculpture, Classical.
Intermediality.

NB85 / .I43 2022