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Family Fictions in Roman Art: Essays on the Representation of Powerful People
Natalie Boymel Kampen
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Description for Family Fictions in Roman Art: Essays on the Representation of Powerful People
hardcover. Natalie Kampen examines the ways artists and their elite patrons used family to explore social and political relations. Num Pages: 226 pages, 39 b/w illus. 33 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 187 x 21. Weight in Grams: 802.
In Family Fictions in Roman Art, Natalie Kampen reveals the profoundly de-naturalized ways in which family could be represented in the interests of political power during the Roman Empire. Her study examines a group of splendid objects made over the course of six hundred years, from carved gems to triumphal arches to ivory plaques, and asks how and why artists and their elite patrons chose to depict family to speak of everything from gender to the nature of rulership, from social rank to relationship itself. In the process, artists found new and often strikingly odd ways to give form to ... Read more
In Family Fictions in Roman Art, Natalie Kampen reveals the profoundly de-naturalized ways in which family could be represented in the interests of political power during the Roman Empire. Her study examines a group of splendid objects made over the course of six hundred years, from carved gems to triumphal arches to ivory plaques, and asks how and why artists and their elite patrons chose to depict family to speak of everything from gender to the nature of rulership, from social rank to relationship itself. In the process, artists found new and often strikingly odd ways to give form to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521584470
SKU
V9780521584470
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About Natalie Boymel Kampen
Natalie Boymel Kampen is professor of Women's Studies and Barbara Novak '50 Professor of Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Recipient of fellowships from the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Fulbright Commission, she has been a visiting Fellow at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford and at the Cornell Society of Fellows in the Humanities. She is ... Read more
Reviews for Family Fictions in Roman Art: Essays on the Representation of Powerful People
"...rich analysis of how familial imagery proved at once stable and flexible, allowing Roman elites to utilize it to establish their social stability (however fictive some of those claims proved to be historically)...Certainly those interested in Roman art history would benefit from Kampen's monograph. Her conclusions about constructions of Roman family structure and self-representation, particularly as it relates to gender, ... Read more