Power, Image, and Memory

Historical Subjects in Art
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-0-19-090108-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 190 mm x 262 mm, Gewicht: 732 g

Those who write history determine its narrative, whether through written text or through the visual language of art and public monuments. Power, Image, and Memory examines a wide variety of artistic traditions, showing how art commemorating historical events can shape collective memory, and with it, the identities of social groups and nations.

From the Mesopotamians to the present day, leaders and societies have used art to frame and memorialize important events. This account establishes a dialogue among traditions in a series of case studies, ranging from the reliefs at Ramses' temple at Abu Simbel and the ancient Greek "Alexander Mosaic" to the Heian Period Japanese scroll of the Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, the Benin Bronzes, Diego Velázquez's Surrender at Breda, and Picasso's Guernica. Weaving together meticulous historic detail, theory, and visual analysis, this volume offers a complex picture of the power of art and memory, as well as of the life of these monuments and messages over time, distanced from their original cultures and context. With insights relevant to contemporary debates reexamining historic monuments, Power, Image, and Memory sheds new light on the power of art to shape social memory and identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holliday, Peter J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Chapter One

- The Victory Stele of Naram-Sîn:

- The Genesis of a Commemorative Tradition

- Chapter Two

- The Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel:

- Message Control in Ancient Egypt

- Chapter Three

- The Alexander Mosaic:

- Democracy and Dynasty in Greek Commemorative Practice

- Chapter Four

- The Column of Trajan:

- Images of Power at Empire's Center and Edge

- Chapter Five

- The Bayeux Embroidery:

- Threads of Memory in Medieval England

- Chapter Six

- The Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace:

- Unscrolling the Warrior Ethos in Medieval Japan

- Chapter Seven

- The Battle of San Romano:

- Painting and the Perpetuation of Memory in Renaissance Florence

- Chapter Eight

- The Benin Plaques:

- Displaced Memories of an African Empire

- Chapter Nine

- The Hünername:

- Identity and Legacy at the Ottoman Court

- Chapter Ten

- The Surrender of Breda:

- Private Memory and Public Gesture in Baroque Spain

- Chapter Eleven

- The Death of General Wolfe:

- Fashioning Imperial and Colonial Identities in the Americas

- Chapter Twelve

- Guernica:

- Modernism and Picasso's "Blasted Allegory"

- Conclusions

- Into the History of Art

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter J. Holliday is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Classical Archaeology, California State University, Long Beach. Issues concerning the reception and appropriation of artistic sources, of how one culture interprets and utilizes the artistic practices of another, inform his books and articles in the Art Bulletin, American Journal of Archaeology, Etruscan Studies, J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, and other scholarly venues. He has received awards from the American Academy in Rome, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, J. Paul Getty Trust, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities.