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Power, Image, and Memory examines how leaders and societies have used works of art commemorating historical events to shape collective memory. Through iconic artworks over centuries and across the globe, it explores the power of art to affirm cultural identities and thereby mold social groups and nations.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
Summary
Power, Image, and Memory examines how leaders and societies have used works of art commemorating historical events to shape collective memory. Through iconic artworks over centuries and across the globe, it explores the power of art to affirm cultural identities and thereby mold social groups and nations.
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The book affirms ideas about power relations and social hierarchies that can be firmly planted yet also waver due to changes in context and contemporary meaning...the volume will interest scholars of art history, social history, collective memory, and identity. Highly recommended.
