Title & Author:

The ancient art of emulation : studies in artistic originality and tradition from the present to classical antiquity / Elaine K. Gazda, editor.

Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Description:

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volume ; 1

Notes:
"This book grows out of a seminar entitled 'The Roman art of emulation,' which met at the American Academy in Rome in the summer of 1994"--P. [xi].
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-300).
Introduction : Beyond copying : artistic originality and tradition / Elaine K. Gazda -- Twentieth-century rhetoric : enforcing originality and distancing the past / Ruth Weisberg -- The problem of labels : three marble shepherds in nineteenth-century Rome / Alice Taylor -- Restorer and collector : notes on eighteenth-century recreations of Roman statues / Nancy H. Ramage -- "di sua mano" / Richard E. Spear -- In search of the Greek bronze original / Carol C. Mattusch -- Extending the reach of marble : struts in Greek and Roman sculpture / Mary B. Hollinshead -- Rhetoric, literary criticism, and the Roman aesthetics of artistic imitation / Ellen E. Perry -- Forms of attention : four notes on replication and variation / Michael Koortbojian -- The Ludovisi barbarians : the grand manner / Miranda Marvin -- Greek myth, gender, and social structure in a Roman house : two paintings of Achilles at Pompeii / Jennifer F. Trimble -- Eros's flame : images of sexy boys in Roman ideal sculpture / Elizabeth Bartman -- The Citharode Apollo in villa contexts : a Roman theme with variations / Linda Jones Roccos.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"_The Ancient Art of Emulation_ examines how we have come to value originality over emulation, originals over copies, and authentic over restored works, and how these values have entered into our assessments of Roman art. It also seeks to uncover what the Romans thought about 'copies', what they admired and valued in visual art. In doing so, it studies the range of Roman audience reactions to 'copies' and other retrospective creations. Finally, the book presents several case studies (of sculptures and paintings) that employ a variety of analytical strategies--historiographic, spatial, sociohistorical, functional, gender-based, iconographic, typological, and archaeological--to get at the function and meaning of Roman imagery created in the classical traadition."--From Front Cover

Resources:
Publisher description
*McMaster only
Online version (Accès pour le personnel et les chercheurs du CCA / Access for CCA staff and researchers)

ISBN:

0472111892 (acid-free paper)
9780472111893 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Art Reproduction.
20.60 classical art: general.
Originaliteit.
Kunstreceptie.
Beeldvorming.
Kopieën.
Beeldende kunsten.
Klassieke oudheid.
Art, Classical Reproduction
Sculpture, Roman
Sculpture, Greek Copying

Added entries:

Gazda, Elaine K., 1943-
American Academy in Rome
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volume ; 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256509
Call No.: BIB 186891
Status: Available