{"product_id":"the-frame-in-classical-art-a-cultural-history-paperback-9781316614815","title":"The Frame in Classical Art; A Cultural History (Paperback \/ softback) 9781316614815","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Frame in Classical Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Cultural History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book reveals how 'marginal' aspects of Graeco-Roman art play a fundamental role in shaping and interrogating ancient and modern visual culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVerity Platt (Edited by), Michael Squire (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316614815, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e735 pages, 221 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 4 cm, 1.26 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Framing the Frame: 1. Framing the visual in Greek and Roman antiquity: an introduction Verity Platt and Michael Squire\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Framing Pictorial Space: Introduction Verity Platt\u003cbr\u003e 2. The frames of Greek painted pottery Clemente Marconi\u003cbr\u003e 3. Unframing the representation: the frontal face in Athenian vase painting Guy Hedreen\u003cbr\u003e 4. Framing the Roman still life: Campanian wall painting and the frames of make-believe Michael Squire\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Framing Bodies: Introduction Michael Squire\u003cbr\u003e 5. Framing Archaic Greek sculpture: figure, ornament and script Nikolaus Dietrich\u003cbr\u003e 6. Framing and social identity in Roman portrait statues Jennifer Trimble\u003cbr\u003e 7. Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi Verity Platt\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Framing the Sacred: Introduction Verity Platt\u003cbr\u003e 8. Framing divine bodies in Greek art Milette Gaifman\u003cbr\u003e 9. How the Gauls broke the frame: the political and theological impact of taking battle scenes off Greek temples Robin Osborne\u003cbr\u003e 10. Visual ontologies: style, archaism and framing in the construction of the sacred in the western tradition Jas' Elsner\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Framing texts: Introduction Michael Squire\u003cbr\u003e 11. Framing technologies in Hero and Ptolemy Courtney Roby\u003cbr\u003e 12. Writing, reading, and seeing between the lines: framing late-antique inscriptions as texts and images Sean V. Leatherbury\u003cbr\u003e 13. Envoi: framing 'antiquity' Rebecca Zorach.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Art forms [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Art forms\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Art%20forms%20%5BAF%5D%22\"\u003eAF\u003c\/a\u003e], History of art: Byzantine \u0026amp; Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of art: Byzantine \u0026amp; Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20art:%20Byzantine%20\u0026amp;%20Medieval%20art%20c%20500%20CE%20to%20c%201400%20%5BACK%5D%22\"\u003eACK\u003c\/a\u003e], History of art \/ art \u0026amp; design styles [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of art \/ art \u0026amp; design styles\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20art%20\/%20art%20\u0026amp;%20design%20styles%20%5BAC%5D%22\"\u003eAC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004144996632,"sku":"9781316614815","price":46.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781316614815i.jpg?v=1696683001","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-frame-in-classical-art-a-cultural-history-paperback-9781316614815","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}