Image, Text, Stone: Intermedial Perspectives on Graeco-Roman Sculpture

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Image, Text, Stone

Intermedial Perspectives on Graeco-Roman Sculpture

Edited by: Nikolaus Dietrich and Johannes Fouquet

Volume 36 in the series Materiale Textkulturen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110775761

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This edited volume explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. Through its choice of authors, disciplinary backgrounds are deliberately merged in order to bridge the traditional gap between archaeologists, epigraphists and philologists, who for a long time studied statues, material inscriptions and literary epigrams within the closely confined borders of their individual disciplines. Through its choice of objects, privileging works of which there are significant material remains, through its inclusion of all kinds of figural-cum-inscriptional designs, ranging from grand sculpture to reliefs and ‘decorative’ marble-objects, and through its methodological emphasis on ‘close viewing’ (and reading!) of individual objects, this volume focuses on the materiality of both sculpture and inscription. This perspective is enriched by two comparative chapters on inscribing Greek vases and Roman walls (graffiti). The intermediality of image and inscription is envisaged from various thematic angles, including the intricacies of combining image and epigram (both materially and in literary projection), the original production and reception of inscribed sculpture in its ‘long life’, the viewing and ‘reading’ of sculpture in a space of movement, the issue of (re-)naming statues, and the image and inscription in its social and gender-historical context.

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Nikolaus Dietrich and Johannes Fouquet, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Nikolaus Dietrich and Johannes Fouquet Open Access Download PDF	1
I Sculpture and the (Material) Art of Epigram
Wonder and Surprise as Responses to Art Andrej Petrovic Open Access Download PDF	15
Homers Kameradinnen Corinna Reinhardt Open Access Download PDF	41
II A Portrait and a Name: Problematizing a (not so) Easy Match
Ἀνεπίγραφοι Catherine M. Keesling Open Access Download PDF	87
Statuen wie Schauspieler? Ralf Krumeich Open Access Download PDF	115
III Inscribed Sculpture in Space: the Moving Gaze
Motionless Statues? Johannes Fouquet Open Access Download PDF	143
Bild und Schrift auf dem Weg zur Transmedialität Katharina Lorenz Open Access Download PDF	179
IV Exploring Image and Text Beyond Grand Sculpture
Das Ideal der guten Ehefrau Caterina Maderna Open Access Download PDF	199
Bilder einer intermedialen Inszenierung Arne Reinhardt Open Access Download PDF	237
V Inscriptions, Painted and Scratched
Monumentalising Vase-Inscriptions Georg Simon Gerleigner and François Lissarrague Open Access Download PDF	257
Primary and Secondary Decoration Polly Lohmann Open Access Download PDF	303
VI Inscribed Monuments in the longue durée
Inscribed Classical Victory Offerings at Olympia in the longue durée Nikolaus Dietrich Open Access Download PDF	319
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	361
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	365
Indices Open Access Download PDF	367

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Classical Archaeologists, Epigraphists, Ancient Historians, Classicists
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 374
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 97
- Coloured Illustrations: 25
- Tables: 1
Keywords: Greek sculpture; Greek epigraphic; Text-Image Studies; Visual Studies

eBook

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110775761

Hardcover

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110775693