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“caroline vout”

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  • Exposed

    The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

    by Caroline Vout ...
    WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC RUNICMAN AWARDA SUNDAY TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Essential and hugely enjoyable' Katy Hessel'A triumph ... an extraordinary book that stopped me in my tracks' Peter FrankopanCast in buff bronze and carved in white marble, it's easy to see the Greek and Roman body as flawl... ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Classical Art

    A Life History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Caroline Vout ...
    How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Hills of Rome

    Signature of an Eternal City

    by Caroline Vout ...
    Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book examines the need for the 'seven hills' cliché, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the cliché relates to Rome's real volcanic terrain and how it is fundamental to how we define this. Its chronological remit is capacious: Varro, Virgil and Claudian at one end, on, through the work of Renaissance antiquarians, to embrace ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Fictions of Art History

    by Paul Barolsky, Professor Thomas Crow, Gloria Kury, Ralph Lieberman, Maria H. Loh, Alexander Nemerov, Joanna Scott, Cole Swensen, Marianna Torgovnick, Caroline Vout, Marina Warner ...
    Fictions of Art History, the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing practices and modes of writing. How, the contributors ask, are we to unravel the supposed facts of history from the fictions constructed ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Epic Visions

    Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception

    Edited by Helen Lovatt, Caroline Vout ...
    This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall ... Read more

    $38.59 USD