190 research outputs found
Jas Elsner (Ed.), Art and Text in Roman Culture
No full textSomville Pierre. Jas Elsner (Ed.), Art and Text in Roman Culture. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 66, 1997. pp. 530-532
The Casa del Menandro in Pompeii: rhetoric and the topology of Roman wall painting
No full textRhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with examples and discussions drawn from visual material. This book mines this rich seam of theoretical analysis from within Roman culture to present an internalist model for some aspects of how the Romans understood, made and appreciated their art. The understanding of public monuments like the Arch of Titus or Trajan's Column or of imperial statuary, domestic wall painting, funerary altars and sarcophagi, as well as of intimate items like children's dolls, is greatly enriched by being placed in relevant rhetorical contexts created by the Roman world.SCOPUS: bk.binfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
Religion and iconoclasm
No full textFinbarr Barry Flood: Idol-Breaking as Image-Making in the ‘Islamic State’; Jas Elsner: Breaking and Talking - Some Thoughts on Iconoclasm from Antiquity to the Current Moment
The ordo of rhetoric and the rhetoric of order
No full textThis chapter takes its rhetorical cue from an epigram inscribed in prominent Greek letters on a small tablet housed in Rome’s Musei Capitolini (Figure 11.1). The marble relief is one of twenty-two objects that have come to be termed Tabulae Iliacae (‘Iliac tablets’), dating from the late first century bc or early first century ad, and discovered (where provenances are known) in or around Rome. Like the majority of other examples, this particular tablet – the so-called Tabula Capitolina – concerns itself with images of epic poetry, visualizing not only the Iliad (in the lateral friezes to the side), but also the Ilioupersis, Aethiopis and Little Iliad (at the original centre and lower central bands); two stelai, framing the central scene of the sack of Troy, once added a verbal summary in miniature text (Figures 11.2–11.3). If the object brings together words and images, its epigram throws in a rhetorical invocation of its own: [τέχνην τὴν Θεοδ]ώρηον μάθε τάξιν Ὁμήρου ὄφρα δαεὶς πάσης μέτρον ἔχῃς σοφίας. Understand [the technē of Theod]orus so that, knowing the order of Homer, you may have the measure of all wisdom. Following the conceits of numerous Hellenistic epigrams on artworks, these images (are said to) talk back to the reader. Where Simonides famously declared that painting was ‘silent poetry’ and poetry ‘speaking painting’, the inscription bestows our tablet with a literal voice. As a result, the object itself instructs audiences as to how to proceed; indeed, it even addresses the viewing/reading subject directly, speaking in both the second-person subjunctive (ἔχῃς, ‘you may have’) and imperative forms (μάθε, ‘understand!’).</p
Susan Ε. ALCOCK, John F. CHERRY & Jas ELSNER (Ed.), Pausanias. Travel and Memory in Roman Greece.
No full textPirenne-Delforge Vinciane. Susan Ε. ALCOCK, John F. CHERRY & Jas ELSNER (Ed.), Pausanias. Travel and Memory in Roman Greece.. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 73, 2004. pp. 486-487
Jas Elsner, Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity
No full textBalty Janine. Jas Elsner, Art and the Roman Viewer. The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 67, 1998. pp. 592-593
"Scholarhip as such is not a Western model" - Interview with Jas' Elsner
No full textWhy do we absolutely need to talk about cultural history in the context of colonization? How can we find grown-up ways to developing non-european structures of thinking so that they are able to communicate with european structures of thinking in order to show what is lacking, weak and inedequate on our side? Why should scholarship be conflictive? Jas’ Elsner, archaeologist and art historian from the University of Oxford and KOSMOS Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, spoke about th..
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