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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah Tarn SteinerPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780691094885ISBN 10: 0691094888 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 01 December 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface xi Acknowledgments xv List of Abbreviations xvii CHAPTER ONE: Replacement and Replication 3 Replacing the Absent 5 Replication and Its Limits 19 Developments in Late Archaic and Classical Statuary 26 Works of Art in Fiftb-Century Texts 44 Late Classical Images and the Platonic Account 56 CHAPTER TWO: Inside and Out 79 Representing Divinity 80 Cult Activities 105 Vacant or Full? 120 CHAPTER THREE: The Quick and the Dead 135 Inanimate Images and the Dead 136 Divine Motion and Sight 156 CHAPTER FOUR: For Love of a Statue 185 Image Love in Literary Accounts 186 Real-World Viewing 207 CHAPTER FIVE: The Image in the Text 251 The Funerary Monument 252 Victory Statues 259 Honorific Statues and the Encomiastic Address 265 Imaging the Word 281 EPILOGUE: lucian's Retrospective 295 Illustrations 307 Bibliography 329 Index of Passages Cited 343 Subject Index 353Reviews[A] comprehensive, richly documented study... Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing... Informative and satisfying. -- Choice Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning... Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work. -- Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology [A] comprehensive, richly documented study... Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing... Informative and satisfying. -- Choice Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning... Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work. --Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology [A] comprehensive, richly documented study... Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing... Informative and satisfying. --Choice Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning... Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work. --Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology [A] comprehensive, richly documented study... Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing... Informative and satisfying. Choice Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning... Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work. -- Paul Rehak American Journal of Philology Author InformationDeborah Tarn Steiner is Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the author of The Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindar, and The Tyrant's Writ: Myths and Images of Writing in Ancient Greece (Princeton). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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