TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elsner, Jas
AU  - Elsner,Jas
TI  - The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450
SN  - 9780198768630
U1  - W59 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. The Scope of this book : Redefining the Present by rewriting the past ..............1  Continuity and Change .........8  The Role of the Visual in Roman Culture .........10  The Changing nature of Roman art and the art - Historical problem of Style ..........13  1. Images and power .......23  A visual Culture ............25  Art in state Ceremonial ..........26  Art in Civic Life .........32  Art inside the Roman House ..............40  Change and Continuity .......44  3. Art and imperial Power .........49  The Animal image and the Symbolic Unity of the Empire .......50  Imperial Self-Promotion ..........54  II. Images and Society   4. art and Social Life ...........85  Representing Status ..........86  The Elite ........89  The accountrements of Domestic Life: rituals of Dining .......94  5. Centre and Periphery ........107  Local Identity and Empire - wide Acculturation : The problems of Romanization ......109  Late Antiquity : The periphery` Ascendancy at the Expense of the Centre .......117  The Visual Dynamics of Romanization .........124  6. Art and Death .......135  Elevating the Dead : Identity, Narrative, and Representation .....137  Myth and the Adaptation of Culture in the Sculptors workshops ......141  III. Images and Transformation .........155  7. Art and the past : Antiquarian Eclecticism ..........157  Classicism in the second sophistic ..........157  Classicism in the late empire ............173  8. Art and Religion .........185  An Epoch of Transformation .......185  Mystery cults and new Religions : Art and the Construction of Identity ..........191  Differentiation and Syncretism : Cultic creations of Meaning ..........196  Christian Triumph .....205  An Official Religion and its public Presence .......209  9. The Eurasian Context .........221  An Interconnected World ..............222  Appropriations of Images ..........225  An Interconnected discourse of Visual Culture .........231  IV. EPilogue ...........243  10. Art and Culture : Cost, Value, and the Discourse of Art .............245
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