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"Examines the relationship between sound and statuary in Western aesthetic thought in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of sound studies. Considers the sounding statue as an event and as conceptualized through acts of writing and performance"--
Sound sculpture. --- Sound in art. --- Statues.
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""King Ramesses II ruled Egypt for an extraordinary sixty-six years (1279-1213 BC) during the Nineteenth Dynasty. A great warrior and lavish builder, he fathered dozens of children and is widely regarded as the most celebrated and powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom. This wonderfully clear, engaging book recounts the dramatic history of the famed red granite colossal statue of Ramesses II now residing in Egypt's Grand Egyptian Museum. One of the biggest statues ever made and part of the urban landscape of modern Cairo, the statue lent its name to Ramses Square and the city's mainline train station, and was so much a symbol of Cairo that it featured in countless Egyptian films. Susanna Thomas recounts the full history of the statue's creation and installation in the Great Temple of Ptah at Memphis during the reign of Ramesses II, its reuse by Ramesses IV, and the later history of the statue during the Greco-Roman and Islamic Periods. The book also provides an overview of how statues were made in ancient Egypt and includes a brief discussion of the statue cults of Ramesses II, kingship, temples, and the expansion of the New Kingdom capital city of Memphis and its temples. The final section covers the history of the statue since its rediscovery and subsequent rescue in the mid-nineteenth century until its installation in the entrance hall of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. Written by a New Kingdom specialist and curatorial expert and illustrated with over 150 images, Ramesses, Beloved by Ptah tells the fascinating story of this magnificent statue within the wider context of statue cults and the reign of Ramesses II, and its subsequent rescue and restoration in modern times.""--
Ramses --- Statues --- Memphis (Extinct city) --- Antiquities.
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Spanning centuries and the vastness of the Roman Empire, The Last Statues of Antiquity is the first comprehensive survey of Roman honorific statues in the public realm in Late Antiquity. Drawn from a major research project and corresponding online database that collates all the available evidence for the "statue habit" across the Empire from the late third century AD onwards, the volume examines where, how, and why statues were used, and why these important features of urban life began to decline in number before eventually disappearing around AD 600. Adopting a detailed comparative approach, the collection explores variation between different regions--including North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Near East--as well as individual cities, such as Aphrodisias, Athens, Constantinople, and Rome. A number of thematic chapters also consider the different kinds of honorand, from provincial governors and senators, to women and cultural heroes. Richly illustrated, the volume is the definitive resource for studying the phenomenon of late-antique statues. --Amazon description.
Statues --- Statuary --- Monuments --- Sculpture --- History --- Sculpture, Roman --- Sculpture romaine --- Histoire --- Statues. --- To 1500. --- Africa, North. --- Greece. --- Rome (Empire). --- North Africa. --- Rome (Empire) --- Statues - Rome --- Statues - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Statues - Africa, North - History - To 1500
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Some of the most fascinating sculptures to have survived from ancient Egypt are the colossal statues of Akhenaten, erected at the beginning of his reign in his new temple to the Aten at Karnak. Fragments of more than thirty statues are now known, showing the paradoxical features combining male and female, young and aged, characteristic of representations of this king. Did he look like this in real life? Or was his iconography skilfully devised to mirror his concept of his role in the universe? The author presents the history of the discovery of the statue fragments from 1925 to the present da
Monuments --- Statues --- Akhenaton, --- Statues. --- Karnak (Egypt) --- Antiquities. --- Akhenaton (pharaon ; 13..-1354? av. J.-C.) --- Statues colossales --- Karnak (Égypte ; site archéologique) --- Égypte
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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die italienische Plastik" verfügbar.
Sculpture --- History. --- Stonework, Decorative --- Art --- Bas-relief --- Statues --- Sculpture, Primitive
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The voices in this book offer a multi-perspectival approach to Africa, focusing on the skills and the knowledge underpinning visual cultural expressions ranging from Akan symbolism to embodied performances by dancers and storytellers, even re-designed models of Western cars. Educators, designers, artists, critics, curators, and custodians based both in Africa and in Europe are configuring spaces for public, private, institutional as well as digital conversation - whether through pottery or portraiture, furniture or film, shoes or selfies, buildings or books. Readers are encouraged to question how African visual cultures are both 'in' and 'of'; identifying and confrontational; post- and decolonial; preserved and practised; old and new; borrowed and authentic; composite and complete; rooted and soaring. Disciplines being engaged include visual culture studies, media studies, performance studies, orature, literature, art and design - as well as their histories. The editors Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel and Ernst Wagner represent three nodes in the Exploring Visual Cultures north-south collaborative network: The Technical University of Kenya, the University of Pretoria in South Africa and Munich Academy of Fine Arts in Germany.
Sculpture. --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Stonework, Decorative --- Art --- Bas-relief --- Statues
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"The reign of the "heretic pharaoh" Akhenaten-the so-called Amarna Period-witnessed an unprecedented attack on the cult of Amun, King of the Gods, with his cult center at ancient Thebes (modern Luxor). A program to reinstate Amun to pre-eminence in the traditional pantheon was instituted by Akhenaten's successors Tutankhamun, Ay, and Horemhab. Damaged reliefs and inscriptions were restored and new statues of Amun and his consorts Mut and Amunet commissioned to replace those destroyed under Akhenaten. In this study, over 60 statues and fragments of statues attributable to the post-Amarna Period on the basis of an inscription, physiognomy, and/or stylistic analysis are discussed, as well as others that have been incorrectly assigned to the era"--
Sculpture, Egyptian --- Egyptian sculpture --- Amon --- Mut --- Amunet --- Amaunet --- Amounet --- Maut --- Mout --- Amana --- Amon, --- Hammon --- Ammon --- Amon-Reʻ --- Amūn --- Amūn-Rēʻ --- Amen --- Αμμων --- Amun-Ra --- Statues. --- Statues --- Amon - (Egyptian deity) - Statues --- Mut - (Egyptian deity) - Statues --- Amunet - (Egyptian deity) - Statues --- Amon - (Egyptian deity) --- Mut - (Egyptian deity) --- Amunet - (Egyptian deity)
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Sculpture --- Sculpture. --- Plastische kunst. --- Stonework, Decorative --- Art --- Bas-relief --- Statues --- Sculpture, Primitive
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La spécialisation de plus en plus grande et le cloisonnement de nos domaines de recherche (histoire, histoire de l’art, archéologie...) conduisent le plus souvent à étudier et à publier séparément, malgré leur complémentarité, les sources épigraphiques et les sources iconographiques. Des salles de nos musées aux rayons de nos bibliothèques, documents sculptés et documents inscrits forment des ensembles "disjoints". Or, statuaire et épigraphie, signa et tituli, étaient dans l’Antiquité des éléments conçus ensemble, comme les deux volets d’un même message, indissociables dès la première formulation. Cette conjonction d’un texte et d’une image définit précisément le monumentum si caractéristique de la pratique commémorative romaine. Cet ouvrage, centré sur la question du monumentum romain, regroupe les communications présentées lors du colloque "Signa et tituli. Monuments et espaces de représentation en Gaule méridionale sous le regard croisé de la sculpture et de l’épigraphie" (Aix-en-Provence, 26-27 novembre 2009). À la suite d’une approche méthodologique, l’ouvrage propose une série d’études sur différents lieux de la société romaine où se croisent données iconographiques et épigraphiques : les espaces civiques de représentation, les espaces et monuments funéraires, les espaces de la religion.
Archaeology --- epigraphy --- sanctuary --- sculpture --- epitaph --- funerary architecture --- statues --- épigraphie --- sanctuaire --- épitaphe --- statue --- Épigraphie --- Statuaire --- Architecture
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'Monumentality and the Roman Age' presents a study of the concept of monumentality in classical antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how significant it was for the Romans themselves in moulding their individual or collective aspirations and identities.
Architecture, Roman. --- Monuments --- Historical monuments --- Architecture --- Sculpture --- Historic sites --- Memorials --- Public sculpture --- Statues --- Roman architecture
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