Michael Squire
Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
- ISBN 13:
- 9781107657540
- author:
- Michael Squire
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 560
- Dimensions:
- 17 x 2.9 x 24.4 cm
- Genre:
- History, Ancient History & Civilisation, Greec
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
This lavishly illustrated book recontextualises debates about the visual and verbal spheres through the lens of Greek and Roman antiquity. Dr Squire explores how modern Western concepts of 'words' and 'pictures' derive from a post-Reformation tradition of theology and aesthetics.
By examining the ancient world, this interdisciplinary book brings together classics and art history to rethink our own ideologies of the visual and the verbal. The result is a new cultural history of Western visual thinking.
The book challenges modern assumptions about the separation between images and texts, instead revealing a more playful and engaged relation in classical antiquity. With its rich historical context and interdisciplinary approach, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between image and text.
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