Jeremy Tanner
Biographic Data
| ID | 142755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Tanner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanner |
| SIGNATURE | TANNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4427-3839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece
Style and the Development of Art Theory in Classical Greece and Early Imperial China
This essay analyses the circumstances under which Greek and Chinese thinkers and artists became aware of aesthetic response as an intellectual problem, and how their formulations of art theory were shaped by larger social and cultural contexts. Focussing on Greek art theoretical writings of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, and their Chinese counterparts of the Six Dynasties era (third to sixth centuries CE), it addresses what categories of act…
Materialising the Roman Empire
Materialising the Roman Empire defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the Empire was made materially tangible in the lives of its inhabitants. The volume explores how material culture was integral to the processes of imperialism, both as the Empire grew, and as it fragmented, and in doing so provide up-to-date overviews of major topics in Roman archaeology. Each chapter offers a critica…
Correlates of Sleep Health among Older-Age People with and without HIV in Uganda
There is a growing population of older people with HIV (PWH) in Uganda. Sleep problems disproportionately affect older people and PWH. This study aimed to estimate correlates of sleep health among older Ugandans (aged ≥ 50 years) with and without HIV, using data from the Quality of Life and Aging with HIV in Rural Uganda Study. We used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index to assess sleep quality, duration, and efficiency. We fitted multivariable li…
A New Research Programme for Cultural Sociology: On Christopher Thorpe’s Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations
This essay offers a critical appraisal of Christopher Thorpe’s ‘Cultural Sociology of Cultural Representations’ both as a contribution to the historical sociology of English cultural representations of Italy and as the foundations for a new research programme in cultural sociology. It analyses the most important theoretical and critical choices made by Thorpe in setting up his project, and how these inform the analysis of English representations …
Building a strong programme in sociological aesthetics: Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key
Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key develops a compelling approach to the sociologies of art and the emotions, based primarily on Talcott Parsons’ Action Theory and Georg Simmel’s formal sociology. This article appraises the key theoretical strategies of Staubmann’s contribution, and the insights they afford, with particular reference to recent work in the ‘New Sociology of Art’ and the ‘Strong Programme’ of Jeffery Alexander and the Yale s…
Picturing History
In this chapter, Jeremy Tanner examines two series of images—one from Classical Athens and one from Han China—of political assassinations, more specifically “tyrannicides.” These images were replicated, with interesting variations, time and time again, and must have been among the more popular and recognizable iconographies of their eras. Both are concerned with figuring the limits of legitimate power and the ethical basis for and significance of…
Portraits and Politics in Classical Greece and Early Imperial China: An Institutional Approach to Comparative Art
This article develops a comparative approach to the history of portraiture in classical Greece and early imperial China, with a particular focus on institutions of state honorific portraiture.It argues that a key role in the development of portraiture in classical Greece and early imperial China was played by the formation of differentiated political organisation in the two societies, and the need to develop new forms of reward symbolism to engag…
Questions on “world art history”
The choice of this theme for debate has
Faces across the North Sea: Viking art in Norway and England, AD 700-1300
Novgorod is a waterlogged site that has preserved a uniquely detailed record of medieval life, where even personal letters written on birch bark have survived buried in the soil. Now British and Russian archaeologists are recovering new evidence of how the people lived and of the houses they built, as three members of staff of the Institute report
Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl: From Art History to the Sociology of Culture
Karl Mannheim and Erwin Panofsky took Alois Riegl's concept of Kunstwollen as their point of departure in the development of the sciences of cultural interpretation. This article seeks to elucidate the very different readings of Riegl made by Mannheim and Panofsky, and to show how the sociological appropriation and transformation of the concept of Kunstwollen was central to the development of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, and in particular t…
Michael Baxandall and the Sociological Interpretation of Art
Art historian Michael Baxandall's writings have played a key role in defining the major paradigms in the sociology of art: the production of culture perspective, Bourdieu's critical sociology of art, Hennion and DeNora's 'new sociology of art'. Although making fruitful use of Baxandall's focus on markets, material visual practices and the concept of the period eye, these appropriations have overlooked the centrality to Baxandall's work of the con…
Ancient Greece, early China: Sino-Hellenic studies and comparative approaches to the classical world. A review article
Classicists have long been wary of comparisons, partly for ideological reasons related to the incomparability of ‘the Classical’, partly because of the often problematic basis and limited illumination afforded by such efforts as have been made: the (non)-reception of the work of the Cambridge ritualists — such as J.G. Frazer and Jane Harrison — is a case in point in both respects. Interestingly, even the specifically comparative interests of the …
Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl: From Art History to the Sociology of Culture
Karl Mannheim and Erwin Panofsky took Alois Riegl's concept of Kunstwollen as their point of departure in the development of the sciences of cultural interpretation. This article seeks to elucidate the very different readings of Riegl made by Mannheim and Panofsky, and to show how the sociological appropriation and transformation of the concept of Kunstwollen was central to the development of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, and in particular t…
Art's agency and art history
Art's Agency and Art History
Series Editor's Preface. Preface. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction: Art and Agency and Art History: Jeremy Tanner (University College London ) and Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge). 2. Enchantment and Sacrifice in Early Egypt: David Wengrow (University College London). 3. Agency Marked, Agency Ascribed: The Affective Object in Ancient Mesopotamia: Irene J. Winter (Harvard University). 4. Portraits and Agency: A …
Sociology of Art: A Reader
Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. As such it is essential reading both for students of the sociology of art, and of art history. Divided into five sections, it explores the following key themes: * classical sociological theory and…
Augustus
Bild und Bildersprache der römischen Kaiser: Beispiele und Analysen . By Maria R. Alföldi
Nature, culture and the body in classical Greek religious art
This paper explores the relationship between nature, culture and social action in cult statues in archaic and classical Greece. Following the model of recent work in the sociology and anthropology of art, it shifts the focus from decoding the meanings of images, to understanding how artistic languages work to create expressive effects in particular institutional settings. Classical 'naturalism' is characterized as an artistic language with a heig…
Social Structure, Cultural Rationalisation and Aesthetic Judgement in Classical Greece
Social Structure, Cultural Rationalisation and Aesthetic Judgement in Classical Greece
This chapter explores the role that words played in the construction of aesthetic experience in classical Greece. It argues that the contemporary focus of historians of classical art on parallelisms between word and image should be replaced by a consideration of words as one functionally specific component in material processes of aesthetic expression which have their foundations in the body, embodied social practices and social structure. Artwor…
Culture, social structure and the status of visual artists in classical Greece
Recent contributions to the debate on the role, status and autonomy of the artist in classical Greece remain polarised in terms which have remained largely unchanged for more than a century. On one side, we find ‘modernisers’ who hold that the role of the artist, the function of art and the social structure of the Greek art world was more similar to the modern western art world than different. On the other side are ranged the ‘primitivists’ who a…
Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic
Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context. In the study of late Republican portraiture, traditional explanations of the origins of verism in terms of antecedent influences — Hellenistic realism, Egyptian realism, ancestral imagines — have been replaced by a concern to interpret po…
Sotades: Symbols of Immortality on Greek Vases
Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic
Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context. In the study of late Republican portraiture, traditional explanations of the origins of verism in terms of antecedent influences — Hellenistic realism, Egyptian realism, ancestral imagines — have been replaced by a concern to interpret po…
Nature, culture and the body in classical Greek religious art
This paper explores the relationship between nature, culture and social action in cult statues in archaic and classical Greece. Following the model of recent work in the sociology and anthropology of art, it shifts the focus from decoding the meanings of images, to understanding how artistic languages work to create expressive effects in particular institutional settings. Classical 'naturalism' is characterized as an artistic language with a heig…
Michael Baxandall and the Sociological Interpretation of Art
Art historian Michael Baxandall's writings have played a key role in defining the major paradigms in the sociology of art: the production of culture perspective, Bourdieu's critical sociology of art, Hennion and DeNora's 'new sociology of art'. Although making fruitful use of Baxandall's focus on markets, material visual practices and the concept of the period eye, these appropriations have overlooked the centrality to Baxandall's work of the con…
Art as Expressive Symbolism: Civic Portraits in Classical Athens
An analysis of art-historians' and archaeologists' characterizations of art reveals two paradigms. In the earlier paradigm, art-historical appreciation and archaeological explanation were mutually exclusive, if mutually implicated, endeavours. In the more recent paradigm, art-history and archaeology converge in the interpretation of material-culture texts and eschew the explanation of broader social processes. An alternative characterization of a…
Building a strong programme in sociological aesthetics: Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key
Helmut Staubmann’s Sociology in a New Key develops a compelling approach to the sociologies of art and the emotions, based primarily on Talcott Parsons’ Action Theory and Georg Simmel’s formal sociology. This article appraises the key theoretical strategies of Staubmann’s contribution, and the insights they afford, with particular reference to recent work in the ‘New Sociology of Art’ and the ‘Strong Programme’ of Jeffery Alexander and the Yale s…
Portraits and Politics in Classical Greece and Early Imperial China: An Institutional Approach to Comparative Art
This article develops a comparative approach to the history of portraiture in classical Greece and early imperial China, with a particular focus on institutions of state honorific portraiture.It argues that a key role in the development of portraiture in classical Greece and early imperial China was played by the formation of differentiated political organisation in the two societies, and the need to develop new forms of reward symbolism to engag…
Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl: From Art History to the Sociology of Culture
Karl Mannheim and Erwin Panofsky took Alois Riegl's concept of Kunstwollen as their point of departure in the development of the sciences of cultural interpretation. This article seeks to elucidate the very different readings of Riegl made by Mannheim and Panofsky, and to show how the sociological appropriation and transformation of the concept of Kunstwollen was central to the development of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, and in particular t…
Culture, social structure and the status of visual artists in classical Greece
Recent contributions to the debate on the role, status and autonomy of the artist in classical Greece remain polarised in terms which have remained largely unchanged for more than a century. On one side, we find ‘modernisers’ who hold that the role of the artist, the function of art and the social structure of the Greek art world was more similar to the modern western art world than different. On the other side are ranged the ‘primitivists’ who a…
Shifting paradigms in Classical art history
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Art as Expressive Symbolism: Civic Portraits in Classical Athens
An analysis of art-historians' and archaeologists' characterizations of art reveals two paradigms. In the earlier paradigm, art-historical appreciation and archaeological explanation were mutually exclusive, if mutually implicated, endeavours. In the more recent paradigm, art-history and archaeology converge in the interpretation of material-culture texts and eschew the explanation of broader social processes. An alternative characterization of a…
Shifting paradigms in Classical art history
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Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History. By Alex Potts
Faces across the North Sea: Viking art in Norway and England, AD 700-1300
Sotades: Symbols of Immortality on Greek Vases
Social Structure, Cultural Rationalisation and Aesthetic Judgement in Classical Greece
Social Structure, Cultural Rationalisation and Aesthetic Judgement in Classical Greece
This chapter explores the role that words played in the construction of aesthetic experience in classical Greece. It argues that the contemporary focus of historians of classical art on parallelisms between word and image should be replaced by a consideration of words as one functionally specific component in material processes of aesthetic expression which have their foundations in the body, embodied social practices and social structure. Artwor…
Culture, social structure and the status of visual artists in classical Greece
Recent contributions to the debate on the role, status and autonomy of the artist in classical Greece remain polarised in terms which have remained largely unchanged for more than a century. On one side, we find ‘modernisers’ who hold that the role of the artist, the function of art and the social structure of the Greek art world was more similar to the modern western art world than different. On the other side are ranged the ‘primitivists’ who a…
Portraits, Power, and Patronage in the Late Roman Republic
Recent work in ancient art history has sought to move beyond formalist interpretations of works of art to a concern to understand ancient images in terms of a broader cultural, political, and historical context. In the study of late Republican portraiture, traditional explanations of the origins of verism in terms of antecedent influences — Hellenistic realism, Egyptian realism, ancestral imagines — have been replaced by a concern to interpret po…
Bild und Bildersprache der römischen Kaiser: Beispiele und Analysen . By Maria R. Alföldi
Nature, culture and the body in classical Greek religious art
This paper explores the relationship between nature, culture and social action in cult statues in archaic and classical Greece. Following the model of recent work in the sociology and anthropology of art, it shifts the focus from decoding the meanings of images, to understanding how artistic languages work to create expressive effects in particular institutional settings. Classical 'naturalism' is characterized as an artistic language with a heig…
Augustus
Sociology of Art: A Reader
Introducing the fundamental theories and debates in the sociology of art, this broad ranging book, the only edited reader of the sociology of art available, uses extracts from the core foundational and most influential contemporary writers in the field. As such it is essential reading both for students of the sociology of art, and of art history. Divided into five sections, it explores the following key themes: * classical sociological theory and…
Art's agency and art history
Art's Agency and Art History
Series Editor's Preface. Preface. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. 1. Introduction: Art and Agency and Art History: Jeremy Tanner (University College London ) and Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge). 2. Enchantment and Sacrifice in Early Egypt: David Wengrow (University College London). 3. Agency Marked, Agency Ascribed: The Affective Object in Ancient Mesopotamia: Irene J. Winter (Harvard University). 4. Portraits and Agency: A …
Ancient Greece, early China: Sino-Hellenic studies and comparative approaches to the classical world. A review article
Classicists have long been wary of comparisons, partly for ideological reasons related to the incomparability of ‘the Classical’, partly because of the often problematic basis and limited illumination afforded by such efforts as have been made: the (non)-reception of the work of the Cambridge ritualists — such as J.G. Frazer and Jane Harrison — is a case in point in both respects. Interestingly, even the specifically comparative interests of the …
Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl: From Art History to the Sociology of Culture
Karl Mannheim and Erwin Panofsky took Alois Riegl's concept of Kunstwollen as their point of departure in the development of the sciences of cultural interpretation. This article seeks to elucidate the very different readings of Riegl made by Mannheim and Panofsky, and to show how the sociological appropriation and transformation of the concept of Kunstwollen was central to the development of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, and in particular t…
Karl Mannheim and Alois Riegl: From Art History to the Sociology of Culture
Karl Mannheim and Erwin Panofsky took Alois Riegl's concept of Kunstwollen as their point of departure in the development of the sciences of cultural interpretation. This article seeks to elucidate the very different readings of Riegl made by Mannheim and Panofsky, and to show how the sociological appropriation and transformation of the concept of Kunstwollen was central to the development of Mannheim's sociology of knowledge, and in particular t…
Michael Baxandall and the Sociological Interpretation of Art
Art historian Michael Baxandall's writings have played a key role in defining the major paradigms in the sociology of art: the production of culture perspective, Bourdieu's critical sociology of art, Hennion and DeNora's 'new sociology of art'. Although making fruitful use of Baxandall's focus on markets, material visual practices and the concept of the period eye, these appropriations have overlooked the centrality to Baxandall's work of the con…
Faces across the North Sea: Viking art in Norway and England, AD 700-1300
Novgorod is a waterlogged site that has preserved a uniquely detailed record of medieval life, where even personal letters written on birch bark have survived buried in the soil. Now British and Russian archaeologists are recovering new evidence of how the people lived and of the houses they built, as three members of staff of the Institute report
Questions on “world art history”
The choice of this theme for debate has
Portraits and Politics in Classical Greece and Early Imperial China: An Institutional Approach to Comparative Art
This article develops a comparative approach to the history of portraiture in classical Greece and early imperial China, with a particular focus on institutions of state honorific portraiture.It argues that a key role in the development of portraiture in classical Greece and early imperial China was played by the formation of differentiated political organisation in the two societies, and the need to develop new forms of reward symbolism to engag…
Picturing History
In this chapter, Jeremy Tanner examines two series of images—one from Classical Athens and one from Han China—of political assassinations, more specifically “tyrannicides.” These images were replicated, with interesting variations, time and time again, and must have been among the more popular and recognizable iconographies of their eras. Both are concerned with figuring the limits of legitimate power and the ethical basis for and significance of…
Materialising the Roman Empire
Materialising the Roman Empire defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the Empire was made materially tangible in the lives of its inhabitants. The volume explores how material culture was integral to the processes of imperialism, both as the Empire grew, and as it fragmented, and in doing so provide up-to-date overviews of major topics in Roman archaeology. Each chapter offers a critica…
Correlates of Sleep Health among Older-Age People with and without HIV in Uganda
There is a growing population of older people with HIV (PWH) in Uganda. Sleep problems disproportionately affect older people and PWH. This study aimed to estimate correlates of sleep health among older Ugandans (aged ≥ 50 years) with and without HIV, using data from the Quality of Life and Aging with HIV in Rural Uganda Study. We used the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index to assess sleep quality, duration, and efficiency. We fitted multivariable li…
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