Those who write history determine its narrative, whether through written text or through the visual language of art and public monuments. Power, Image, and Memory examines a wide variety of artistic traditions, showing how art commemorating historical events can shape collective memory, and with it, the identities of social groups and nations.
From the Mesopotamians to the present day, leaders and societies have used art to frame and memorialize important events. This account establishes a dialogue among traditions in a series of case studies, ranging from the reliefs at Ramses' temple at Abu Simbel and the ancient Greek "Alexander Mosaic" to the Heian Period Japanese scroll of the Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, the Benin Bronzes, Diego Velazquez's Surrender at Breda, and Picasso's Guernica. Weaving together meticulous historic detail, theory, and visual analysis, this volume offers a complex picture of the power of art and memory, as well as of the life of these monuments and messages over time, distanced from their original cultures and context. With insights relevant to contemporary debates reexamining historic monuments, Power, Image, and Memory sheds new light on the power of art to shape social memory and identity.
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"In this nimble, extraordinarily wide-ranging, and original work, Peter Holliday offers twelve case studies in how works of narrative art can promote and serve those in power, not just commemorating historical events but in essence creating them. From the Stele of Naram-Sin to Guernica, from New Kingdom Egypt to Medieval Japan, from ancient Greeks to Renaissance Florentines, Holliday engages not merely the history of art, but the art of history-how art represents and reconstructs history and persuades the viewer of certain political realities. Well-informed and highly readable, it will find its place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in political art through time and around the world." * Jeffrey M. Hurwit, author of The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles * "In this beautifully written and timely appraisal of some of the world's most famous-and intentionally influential-works of art, Holliday captures the force of collective artistic actions and their ability to shape historical recollection from antiquity to modernity." * John Hopkins, author of Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape * The book affirms ideas about power relations and social hierarchies that can be firmly planted yet also waver due to changes in context and contemporary meaning...the volume will interest scholars of art history, social history, collective memory, and identity. Highly recommended. * Choice *
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Illustrationen
24 color photos; 24 b&w photos
Maße
Höhe: 262 mm
Breite: 190 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-19-090108-0 (9780190901080)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Peter J. Holliday is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, California State University, Long Beach. Issues concerning the reception and appropriation of artistic sources, of how one culture interprets and utilizes the artistic practices of another, inform his books and articles in the Art Bulletin, American Journal of Archaeology, Etruscan Studies, J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, and other scholarly venues. He has received awards from the American Academy in Rome, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical ArchaeologyProfessor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, California State University, Long Beach
Introduction
Chapter One
The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin:
The Genesis of a Commemorative Tradition
Chapter Two
The Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel:
Message Control in Ancient Egypt
Chapter Three
The Alexander Mosaic:
Democracy and Dynasty in Greek Commemorative Practice
Chapter Four
The Column of Trajan:
Images of Power at Empire's Center and Edge
Chapter Five
The Bayeux Embroidery:
Threads of Memory in Medieval England
Chapter Six
The Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace:
Unscrolling the Warrior Ethos in Medieval Japan
Chapter Seven
The Battle of San Romano:
Painting and the Perpetuation of Memory in Renaissance Florence
Chapter Eight
The Benin Plaques:
Displaced Memories of an African Empire
Chapter Nine
The Huenername:
Identity and Legacy at the Ottoman Court
Chapter Ten
The Surrender of Breda:
Private Memory and Public Gesture in Baroque Spain
Chapter Eleven
The Death of General Wolfe:
Fashioning Imperial and Colonial Identities in the Americas
Chapter Twelve
Guernica:
Modernism and Picasso's "Blasted Allegory"
Conclusions
Into the History of Art
Bibliography
Index
