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Word Becomes Image: Openwork vessels as a reflection of Late Antique transformation (Paperback)
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Word Becomes Image: Openwork vessels as a reflection of Late Antique transformation (Paperback)
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Transformationpresents a diachronic investigation providing a rich
case study as well as an approach tracing the contours of a
category of Roman material culture defined by the Roman period
technique of openwork carving. As the first comprehensive
assemblage of openwork vessels from Classical to late Antiquity,
this work offers primary evidence documenting a key example of the
fundamental shift from naturalism to abstraction in which
inscriptions are transformed and word becomes image. A glass blower
herself, Hallie Meredith poses questions about process, tactility
and reception providing a clear picture of the original contexts of
production and reception demonstrated by the Roman technique of
openwork carving. In an in-depth analysis of the corpus as a whole,
typologies (old and new), imagery, geometric patterning and
inscriptions as the major divisions among openwork decorative
elements, basic design principles are identified, non openwork
carving and its relation to openwork decoration are discussed, as
are the function, handling, display, movement and provenance of
openwork vessels throughout the Roman Empire. Art historians and
archaeologists working on the transition from Classical to late
Antiquity, as well as scholars focusing on these and later periods
of study, can fruitfully apply this approach to visual culture.
This work shows how openwork vessels are a reflection of a
wide-reaching Roman cultural aesthetic.
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