{"product_id":"style-and-meaning-in-late-antique-art-ancients-and-moderns-on-seeing-and-thinking-hardback-9781009466325","title":"Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art; Ancients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking (Hardback) 9781009466325","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStyle and Meaning in Late Antique Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAncients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study invites readers to rethink their assumptions about the late antique visual arts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Bassett (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009466325, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e257 pages\u003cbr\u003e26.5 x 18.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.73 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a thoughtful and ambitious book - rich, learned, original - revealing of long and serious reflection … a significant achievement.' Elizabeth Sears, George H. Forsyth Junior Collegiate Professor of History of Art, University of Michigan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual production has been defined as stylistically abstract and emotionally spiritual, and therefore elusive. But this is a perception which – in her path-breaking new book – Sarah Bassett boldly challenges, offering two novel lines of interpretative inquiry. She first argues, by focusing on the art of late antiquity in late nineteenth-century Viennese intellectual and artistic circles, that that period's definition of late antique form was in fact a response to contemporaneous political concerns, anticipating modernist thinking and artistic practice. She then suggests that late antique viewers never actually abandoned a sense of those mimetic goals that characterized Greek and Roman habits of representation. This interpretative shift is transformative because it allows us to understand the full range and richness of late antique visual experience.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Moderns: 1. Exploring the 'Dark Continent': Franz Wickhoff, Alois Riegl, and the first definitions of late antiqute art\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rome on the Danube: late antique art and Austrian identity\u003cbr\u003e 3. East meets West: archaeology, art history, and the crystallization of late antique art\u003cbr\u003e 4. Building vocabulary in the 'Epoch of the Great Spiritual'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Ancients: 5. The styles of mimesis\u003cbr\u003e 6. Storytelling and the 'illusive similitude of life'\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ceremonial images and the 'amplification of good things'\u003cbr\u003e 8. Portraits civic and sacred\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conclusion: an art of persuasion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: The arts: general issues [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on The arts: general issues\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22The%20arts:%20general%20issues%20%5BAB%5D%22\"\u003eAB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472099012888,"sku":"9781009466325","price":26.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009466325i.jpg?v=1785716914","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/style-and-meaning-in-late-antique-art-ancients-and-moderns-on-seeing-and-thinking-hardback-9781009466325","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}