
Landscape and Space
Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art
Jas Elsner(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 22. December 2021
Book
Hardback
206 pages
978-0-19-284595-5 (ISBN)
Description
Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the representation of landscape has been rather less addressed in the scholarship of the archaeologically-accessed visual cultures of the ancient world. The kinds of reliefs, objects, and paintings discussed here have a significant purchase on matters concerned with landscape and space in the visual sphere, but were discovered within archaeological contexts and by means of excavation. Through case studies focused on the invention of wilderness imagery in ancient China, the relation of monuments to landscape in ancient Greece, the place of landscape painting in Mesoamerican Maya art, and the construction of sacred landscape across Eurasia between Stonehenge and the Silk Road via Pompeii, this book emphasises the importance of thinking about models of landscape in ancient art, as well as the value of comparative approaches in underlining core aspects of the topic. Notably, it explores questions of space, both actual and conceptual, including how space is configured through form and representation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
95 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 193 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-284595-5 (9780192845955)
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Landscape and Space
Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art
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Jas Elsner
Landscape and Space
Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art
E-Book
11/2021
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€41.99
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Person
Jas Elsner is Professor of Late Antique Art at the University of Oxford and Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago, and External Scientific Member of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Max Planck Society, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy. He works on all areas of art and religion in antiquity and the early middle ages across Europe and Western Asia, including pilgrimage, travel-writing, and the description of art in texts, and is particularly interested in the problems of comparativism in art history. Along with the other contributors to this book, he is a member of the Center for Global Ancient Art at the University of Chicago which is committed to comparative study of archaeological and art historical issues in all cultures across the ancient world.
Editor
Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and ArtHumfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Content
Ja's Elsner: Introduction: Landscape and Space
1: Wu Hung: Inventing Wilderness: The Birth of Landscape Representation in China
2: Richard Neer: Statues, Stelai, and Turning-Posts in Greece, ca. 565-ca. 465 BE: The Limits of Iconography
3: Claudia Brittenham: Locating Landscape in Maya Painting
4: Ja's Elsner: Space-Object-Landscape: Sacred and 'Sacro-Idyllic' from Dunhuang via Stonehenge to Roman Wall-Painting
1: Wu Hung: Inventing Wilderness: The Birth of Landscape Representation in China
2: Richard Neer: Statues, Stelai, and Turning-Posts in Greece, ca. 565-ca. 465 BE: The Limits of Iconography
3: Claudia Brittenham: Locating Landscape in Maya Painting
4: Ja's Elsner: Space-Object-Landscape: Sacred and 'Sacro-Idyllic' from Dunhuang via Stonehenge to Roman Wall-Painting