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The Ancient Art of Emulation - Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (Hardcover)
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The Ancient Art of Emulation - Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome
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All too often, museums throughout the world label their Roman
sculpture and wall paintings as "Roman copy after a Greek
original." In this book, Elaine K. Gazda and the contributors
question the often too simplistic, deeply ingrained thinking that
underlies this view of the relationship between Greek and Roman
art. Examining the problems associated with such thinking by
situating them within a broad chronological framework, The Ancient
Art of Emulation calls attention to many of the sources underlying
traditional ingrained prejudices. The essays in this book
underscore the need, in the case of Roman art, to distinguish more
clearly than we have done in the past what "originality"---or
invention---meant to the Romans, and how those notions differ from
what our Romanticist/modernist expectations have led us to expect
in the present. This book builds upon revisionist scholarship of
the past three decades, which redefines a number of the terms of
discussion of "Roman copies" by reclassifying many of them as
neoclassical or idealising works and treating them as legitimate
expressions of Roman cultural concerns. The contributors extend
that line of inquiry by considering recent discourse on copying and
originality as well as on related issues such as imitation,
artistic agency, influence, appropriation, and authenticity. The
chapters are presented in an unorthodox reverse chronological
sequence in order to emphasise how thought and tastes of recent
centuries have conditioned our views of the classical past and how
"the Roman copy" must be seen as an artificial construct, the
product of modern prejudices and their intellectual sources. The
Ancient Art of Emulation will appeal to a broad range of
intellectual interests and humanistic disciplines. In addition to
classical archaeologists and historians of ancient art, it will
speak to art historians of later periods, practising artists, and
art critics, as well as scholars and students who have an interest
in the phenomenon of artistic imitation.
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