Details

Subject(s)

• Statues—Psychological aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Dickenson, Christopher P. [Browse]

Series

Routledge research in art history. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defining publicness itself. The meaning of public statues is examined through discussion of their appearance and their spatial context, and of written discourses having to do with how they were experienced. Bringing together experts working on statues in different cultures, the book sheds light on similarities and differences in the role that public statues had in different times and places throughout history. The book will also provide insight into the diverse methods and approaches that scholars working on these different periods are using to investigate statues. The book will appeal to historians, art historians and archaeologists of all periods who have an interest in the display of sculpture, the reception of public art or the significance of public monuments"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

Includes index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• How accessible were statues in Pharaonic Egypt? / Campbell Price, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
• When Venus mocked the pope : ancient sculptures in the possessi of Renaissance Rome / Kathleen W. Christian, Humbolt-Univesität zu Berlin
• From empires past to nation state : figurative public statues in Istanbul / Faik Gür, Melis Taner, Deniz Türker.

ISBN

• 0-367-81546-X
• 1-000-36824-6

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