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  • Saints

    Faith without Borders

    Edited by Françoise Meltzer, Jas Elsner ...
    While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amarāvatī

    Art and Buddhism in Ancient India

    by Jaś Elsner ...
    This exploration of the exceptional Buddhist stupa (reliquary mound) at Amarāvatī, one of ancient India’s most extraordinary monuments, presents a fresh perspective on the rich visual culture of ancient South Asia viewed through the lens of art history, connecting the stupa’s artistic innovations with advancements in Buddhist philosophy and rituals. Jaś Elsner offers new insights into early ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Roman Eyes

    Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text

    by Jaś Elsner ...
    In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire.Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terra-cotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Art of the Roman Empire

    AD 100-450

    by Jaś Elsner ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas' ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art

    Edited by Jas' Elsner, Milette Gaifman, Nathaniel B. Jones ...
    Series Book 40 - Yale Classical Studies
    The artistic category of relief has long dominated scholarly discussions of ancient Greco-Roman art for good reason: images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the rise of the Greek city-state through to the Christian era. They are witnessed in public and private contexts; terracotta, bronze, and stone media; techniques as varied as incision, modelling, or repoussé; and scales from the ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond

    Papers from the 54th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies

    Edited by Ine Jacobs, Jaś Elsner, Julia M. H. Smith ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    The theoretical framework known as Material Religion has emerged as a vibrant and profoundly influential approach within religious studies over the past two decades. Originating in the first decade of the 21st century from currents within cultural anthropology, Material Religion challenges a foundational assumption of much modern Western thought: that matter and spirit — materiality and religion — ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire

    Edited by Daniel Jolowicz, Jaś Elsner ...
    This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a multiplicity of cultural forms from identity-assertion to polemic. ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity

    Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland

    Edited by Jaś Elsner ...
    This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Landscape and Space

    Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art

    Edited by Jaś Elsner ...
    Series series Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
    Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the representation of landscape has been rather less addressed in the scholarship of the archaeologically ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Ark of Civilization

    Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945

    Edited by Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider, Jaś Elsner ...
    In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to England following the rise of the Nazi regime, Germany's loss became Oxford's gain. From the mid-1930s ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture

    Edited by Jaś Elsner, Michel Meyer ...
    Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with examples and discussions drawn from visual material. This book mines this rich seam of theoretical ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Figurines

    Figuration and The Sense of Scale

    Edited by Jaś Elsner ...
    Series series Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
    Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always potentially and without protection within the narrative of figurines. As such, they have potential for a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD