TY - BOOK AU - Barham,Nicola AU - Dietrich,Nikolaus AU - Elsner,Jaś AU - Grethlein,Jonas AU - Haug,Annette AU - Hölscher,Tonio AU - Kéi,Nikolina AU - Lissarrague,François AU - Muth,Susanne AU - Neer,Richard AU - Platt,Verity AU - Reinhardt,Arne AU - Squire,Michael AU - Trimble,Jennifer TI - Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art: Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity SN - 9783110460155 AV - N5605 .O76 2018 U1 - 709.01 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Art, Greco-Roman KW - Themes, motives KW - Image (Philosophy) KW - Mimesis KW - Ornament KW - Ästhetik /Antike KW - ART / History / Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh KW - Graeco-Roman visual culture KW - ancient aesthetics KW - mimesis KW - ornament/decoration N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on contributors --; ‘To haunt, to startle, and way-lay’: Approaching ornament and figure in Graeco-Roman art --; Figürlicher Schmuck in der griechischen Architektur zwischen Dekor und Repräsentation --; Ornamental and formulaic patterns: The semantic significance of form in early Greek vase-painting and Homeric epic --; Ornament und Design: Attisch geometrische Figuralgefäße und Gefäße mit plastischem Dekor --; Armure et ornement dans l’imagerie attique --; Beneath the handles of Attic vases --; Order and contingency in Archaic Greek ornament and figure --; Ornament, incipience and narrative: Geometric to Classical --; Of sponges and stones: Matter and ornament in Roman painting --; Esteemed ornament: An overlooked value for approaching Roman visual culture --; Delectari varietate: Zur Erklärung der repetitiven Darstellung auf dem ‚Puteal Tegel‘ --; Figure and ornament, death and transformation in the Tomb of the Haterii --; Ornament, figure and mise en abyme on Roman sarcophagi --; Aus der Perspektive der römischen Bodenmosaiken: Ornamentalisierte Figuren oder figuralisierte Ornamente?; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. On the one hand, we argue, Greek and Roman materials have proved instrumental in shaping modern assumptions. On the other hand, those ideologies are fundamentally removed from ancient ideas: an ancient perspective can therefore shed light on larger aesthetic debates about what images are – or indeed what they should be.This anthology of specially commissioned essays explores a variety of case studies (both literary and art historical alike): it discusses materials from across the ancient Mediterranean, and from Geometric art all the way through to late antiquity; the book also tackles questions of ‘figure’ and ‘ornament’ in relation to different media – including painting, free-standing statues, relief sculpture, mosaics and architecture. A particular feature of the volume lies in bringing together different national academic traditions, building a bridge between formalist approaches and broader cultural historical perspectives UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110469578 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110469578 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110469578/original ER -