Conditions of Visibility

What conditions must be met, what has to be in place, for a work of art to be visible? In this volume, leading scholars working at the intersection of archaeology and the history of art compare modern ways of seeing with ancient, art-historical approaches.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Richard Neer: Three Types of Invisibility: The Akropolis of Athens


• 2: Claudia Brittenham: What Lies Beneath: Carving on the Underside of Aztec Sculpture


• 3: Jä Elsner: Concealment and Revelation: The Pola Casket and the Visuality of Early Christian Relics


• 4: Wu Hung: The Archaeology of Passage: Reading Invisibility in Chinese Tombs

About the author

Richard Neer is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College, at the University of Chicago. He works at the intersection of aesthetics, archaeology, and history, with particular emphasis on theories of style in the fields of Classical Greek sculpture, neo-Classical French painting, and mid-twentieth-century cinema. He has received fellowships and awards from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and the American Academy in Rome. His most recent books are The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Art and Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500-c. 150 BCE (Thames & Hudson, 2012). Since 2010 he has also been the Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry.

Summary

What conditions must be met, what has to be in place, for a work of art to be visible? In this volume, leading scholars working at the intersection of archaeology and the history of art compare modern ways of seeing with ancient, art-historical approaches.

Additional text

A persuasive case for how to go about 'global art history' in the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Neer
• Assisted by: Richard Neer (Editor), Richard (William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History Neer (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780198845560
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884556-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology; Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series; Visual Conversations in Art an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of Art, Archaeology, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE