studies in artistic originality and tradition from the present to classical antiquity /
First Statement of Responsibility
Elaine K. Gazda, editor.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Michigan Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 300 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
29 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volume ;
Volume Designation
1
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300).
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : Beyond copying : artistic originality and tradition / Elaine K. Gazda -- Twentieth-century rhetoric : enforcing originality and distancing the past / Ruth Weisberg -- The problem of labels : three marble shepherds in nineteenth-century Rome / Alice Taylor -- Restorer and collector : notes on eighteenth-century recreations of Roman statues / Nancy H. Ramage -- "di sua mano" / Richard E. Spear -- In search of the Greek bronze original / Carol C. Mattusch -- Extending the reach of marble : struts in Greek and Roman sculpture / Mary B. Hollinshead -- Rhetoric, literary criticism, and the Roman aesthetics of artistic imitation / Ellen E. Perry -- Forms of attention : four notes on replication and variation / Michael Koortbojian -- The Ludovisi barbarians : the grand manner / Miranda Marvin -- Greek myth, gender, and social structure in a Roman house : two paintings of Achilles at Pompeii / Jennifer F. Trimble -- Eros's flame : images of sexy boys in Roman ideal sculpture / Elizabeth Bartman -- The Citharode Apollo in villa contexts : a Roman theme with variations / Linda Jones Roccos.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"_The Ancient Art of Emulation_ examines how we have come to value originality over emulation, originals over copies, and authentic over restored works, and how these values have entered into our assessments of Roman art. It also seeks to uncover what the Romans thought about 'copies', what they admired and valued in visual art. In doing so, it studies the range of Roman audience reactions to 'copies' and other retrospective creations. Finally, the book presents several case studies (of sculptures and paintings) that employ a variety of analytical strategies--historiographic, spatial, sociohistorical, functional, gender-based, iconographic, typological, and archaeological--to get at the function and meaning of Roman imagery created in the classical traadition."--From Front Cover