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Reset in Stone

Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens

By: Sarah A. Rous

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Reset in Stone

Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens

By: Sarah A. Rous

Ancient Athenians were known to reuse stone artifacts, architectural blocks, and public statuary in the creation of new buildings and monuments. However, these construction decisions went beyond mere pragmatics: they were often a visible mechanism for shaping communal memory, especially in periods of profound and challenging social or political transformation. Sarah Rous develops the concept of upcycling to refer to this meaningful reclamation, the intentionality of reemploying each particular object for its specific new context. The upcycling approach drives innovative reinterpretations of diverse cases, including column drums built into fortification walls, recut inscriptions, monument renovations, and the wholesale relocation of buildings. Using archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence from more than eight centuries of Athenian history, Rous's investigation connects seemingly disparate instances of the reuse of building materials. She focuses on agency, offering an alternative to the traditional discourse on spolia. Reset in Stone illuminates a vital practice through which Athenians shaped social memory in the physical realm, literally building their past into their city.

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University of Wisconsin Press

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0299322807

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Tina Modotti Photographs

By: Sarah Lowe

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Tina Modotti Photographs

By: Sarah Lowe

The powerful work and dramatic life of Italian-born photographer and Marxist revolutionary Tina Modotti (1896-1942). These superb illustrations--many rarely or never before published--include "Roses", which in 1991 commanded the highest price ever paid to date for a photograph at auction. 148 duotone photos.

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Harry N. Abrams

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0810927632

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9780810927636

Animating the Antique

Sculptural Encounter in the Age of Aesthetic Theory

By: Sarah Betzer

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Animating the Antique

Sculptural Encounter in the Age of Aesthetic Theory

By: Sarah Betzer

Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of artistic and aesthetic encounters. Moving across varied locations—among them Rome, Florence, Naples, London, Dresden, and Paris—Sarah Betzer explores a history that has yet to be written: that of the Janus-faced nature of interactions with the antique by which sculptures and beholders alike were caught between the promise of animation and the threat of mortification. Examining the traces of affective and transformative sculptural encounters, the book takes off from the decades marked by the archaeological, art-historical, and art-philosophical developments of the mid-eighteenth century and culminantes in fin de siècle anthropological, psychological, and empathic frameworks. It turns on two fundamental and interconnected arguments: that an eighteenth-century ontology of ancient sculpture continued to inform encounters with the antique well into the nineteenth century, and that by attending to the enduring power of this model, we can newly appreciate the distinctively modern terms of antique sculpture’s allure. As Betzer shows, these eighteenth-century developments had far-reaching ramifications for the making and beholding of modern art, the articulations of art theory, the writing of art history, and a significantly queer Nachleben of the antique. Bold and wide-ranging, Animating the Antique sheds light upon the work of myriad artists, in addition to that of writers ranging from Goethe and Winckelmann to Hegel, Walter Pater, and Vernon Lee. It will be especially welcomed by scholars and students working in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art history, art writing, and art historiography.

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Penn State Press

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0271096691

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9780271096698

Reset in Stone

Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens

By: Sarah A. Rous

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Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens

By: Sarah A. Rous

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Reset in Stone

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Tina Modotti Photographs

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