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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles
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Saying It
(Book)
Mieke Bal, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Renate Farro; Edited by Stefan van der Lecq
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R224
Discovery Miles 2 240
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Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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Etel Adnan (1925-2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist and
visual artist. This is the first book to present a full account of
Adnan's fascinating life and work, using the drama of her
biography, the complexity of her identity, and the cosmopolitan
nature of her experience to illuminate the many layers and
dimensions of her paintings and their progress over several crucial
decades. Adnan came relatively late to painting - her first images
were created in the late-1950s in response to the Californian
landscape. Her vocabulary of lines, shapes and colours changed
little over time, and yet there are huge variations in mood,
texture, composition and material. Similarly, there is a balance
between understanding her paintings as pure abstractions, emulating
the shape of thought, and seeing them for the actual landscapes of
the many places Adnan loved, embraced and responded to. Tackling
the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen
Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the
full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
The book concerns female dress in Roman life and literature. The
main focus is on female Roman dress as it may have been worn in
daily life in Rome and in a social environment influenced by Roman
culture in the time from the beginnings of the Republic until the
end of the 2nd century AD. There is, however, a certain surplus as
to its contents because many Latin texts also talk about mythical
Greek dress and the largely fictional early Roman dress.
Altogether, large parts of the history of Roman dress are only
known to us through what scholars thought about it in Classical and
Late Antiquity. For this reason, this book is not only about real
female Roman dress, but also about the ancient pseudo-discourse on
early female Roman dress, which has been taken too seriously by
modern scholarship. This pseudo-discourse has been mixed together
with real facts to produce an ahistorical fabric. It therefore
appeared necessary to break with this old tradition and to take a
completely new path. The detailed analysis of many texts on female
Roman dress is the basis of this new handbook meant for
philologists, historians, and archaeologists alike.
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