Art of Ancient Spectacle by Bergmann, Bettina ISBN 0300077335
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This engaging book is the first to explore the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman spectacles and visual artefacts.
Festivals, ceremonies, rituals, and other displays provide powerful ways to create and express a collective identity. This engaging book is the first to explore the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman spectacles and visual artefacts. The contributors to the volume consider how participation and spectatorship in diverse public activities influenced perceptions of what it meant to be Greek or Roman. And they examine the essential roles of physical sites, special effects, choreography, props, and visual representations in these live performances from the fourth century B.C.E. to the sixth century C.E.. This book defines spectacle broadly. It encompasses not only officially sanctioned collective performance but also impromptu acts, spontaneous parodies, and even personal appearances on the street. Events ranging from combat in the arena to theatre productions, from banquets to funerals, are discussed in terms of their forms and the visual arts created for them. Art and architecture generally functioned on three levels, the contributors find: as prop and setting, as a record of the event, and as a reminder of the event to the beholder. Out of this examination of the nature of Greek and Roman spectacles and their surviving images emerges a clearer understanding of their vital impact on later art, theatre, literature, and ceremony.
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[edit] Title
Art of Ancient Spectacle
[edit] Author
Bergmann, Bettina
[edit] ISBN
0300077335
[edit] Published
01/02/2000
[edit] Publisher
Yale University Press
[edit] Binding
HARDBACK
[edit] Retail Price
40 (GBP)
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40 (GBP)
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