Patricia A Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 975473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia A Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Origines gentium: The origins of Greeks, Etruscans, Romans, and others
Returning Home in the Greek and Roman World”: Symposium Classicum Peregrinum, June 10–12 and 16, 2022 Messina and Taormina
Evaluating Readmission Rates for a Statewide In-Home Ecosystemic Family-Based Treatment Program for Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance
Amor in Vergil: Good or Bad
Vergil interweaves the varying meanings of amor , from not only a positive force, to aggressive desires and to all its varied aspects, making it both harsh, deceptive and cruel, and conversely something very special reflecting things most cherished and respected
I” is for “Italian”: Francis W. Edmonds and the Image Peddler in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
Italian “image peddlers” sold small plaster sculptural reproductions door to door in the United States during the nineteenth century. Representations of these street vendors illuminate the histories of the art reproductions market, emigration of the Italian Catholic artisans who produced and sold classical and Renaissance figurines, and the Protestant middle-class consumers who purchased them. Using print images from abecedaries (alphabet books) …
Anna Perenna in Vergil, Ovid, and Statius: A Curse or A Blessing
The discovery of the fountain of Anna Perenna in Rome in 1999, and especially the presence there of curse tablets, establishes that she was known as a religious presence in the time of Ovid and, presumably, of Vergil. This paper seeks to examine the depictions we find of her in the works of Ovid, Vergil, and in Statius’ Punica 8
Symposium Classicum Peregrinum: “Blessings and Curses in Antiquity”
The Mysteries of Mithras and Other Mystic Cults in the Roman World: Introduction. An Occasion to Deal with Mithraism Anew
Vergil’s use of saevus (vs. Homer’S ΔΕΙΝOΣ) to depict Juno
Vergil’s depiction of Juno as saeva does not correspond to Homer’s depiction of Hera, but rather to a combination of Homer’s Hera and Pallas. Vergil’s Juno, moreover, is far less subservient to Jupiter (who is not really as active in the Aeneid as Zeus is in the Iliad ). While Homer frequently pairs Hera with Pallas Athena, Vergil’s Juno acts independently, while assuming in particular many of the traits of Homer’s Pallas Athena
Hera and Juno: The Functions of the Goddesses in Prehistoric and Historic Greece and Rome
Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid by Anne Rogerson
Reviewed by: Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid by Anne Rogerson Patricia A. Johnston Anne Rogerson. Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. viii, 237. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-11539-2. Ascanius, argues Rogerson (1), the Aeneid’s smallest hero, not only represents the glories to come after the Aeneid; Vergil also “uses Ascanius to represe…
Saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram Juno, Veii, and Augustus
A driving force in Vergil’s Aeneid is the hostility of Juno to the Trojans as they approach, and finally arrive in Italy. The epic in some ways mirrors the opposition encountered by Augustus as the new ruler of Rome. Juno’s opposition to the Trojans has its origin not only in Greek mythology, but in the history of the local peoples of Italy with whom early Romans had to contend. From the outset of the poem she becomes the personification of these…
Cara deum suboles: Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil’s pastoral landscape
The tragedies of Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil's Georgics anticipate their respective elevations in the afterlife
Modern Man
Book Review| March 01 2011 Modern Man Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens The Phillips CollectionWashington, DC October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens By Wendy A. Grossman International Arts and Artists, 2009184 pp./$39.95 (sb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston PATRICIA JOHNSTON is a professor of Art History at Salem State University in Massachusetts and editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing…
Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia
Photo Economics
Essay| April 01 2006 Photo Economics The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929, by Elspeth H. Brown, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 344 pp./$49.95 (hb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is a professor of art history at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Cul…
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As impr…
Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times
Review| December 01 2000 Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5-April 30, 2000Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, by Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman and Jenna Webster, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2000, 340 pp./$45.00 (sb) The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C…
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Journal Article Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86…
Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images
Journal Article Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. By David Morgan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 265 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20978-8.) Get access Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1666–1667, https://doi.org/10.2…
Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography
Reviewed by: Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography* Patricia Johnston (bio) Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography. By Geoffrey Batchen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii+273; illustrations, notes/references, index. $35. In 1828, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre wrote to his partner Nicéphore Niépce: “I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature.” Though textbooks today generally credit Daguerre and N…
Brady’s Nation
Review| October 01 1998 Brady’s Nation Mathew Brady and the Image of History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1997-January 4, 1998 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 22-April 15, 1998 International Center of Photography/Midtown, New York, New York, June 12-September 6, 1998Mathew Brady and the Image of History, by Mary Panzer with an essay by Jeana K. Foley, S…
Virtual Resistance
Review| June 01 1997 Virtual Resistance Anxious Libraries: Photography and the Fate of Reading Photographic Resource Center at Boston UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, November 22, 1996-January 31, 1997 Patricia Johnston, Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is Associate Professor of Art History at Salem State College and is on the board of directors of the Photographic Resource Center. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Goo…
Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography
During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work--which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, and almost every other popular magazine published in the United States--has not received the attention it deserves. At a time when photography was just beginning to replace drawings a…
Indigenous Visions
Essay| June 01 1995 Indigenous Visions: An Interview with Carlota Duarte Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is an art historian. Her book Real Fantasies: Edward Stephen’s Advertising Photographs will be published next year by the University of California Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1995) 23 (1): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1995.23.1.8 Views Icon Views Articl…
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Journal Article Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86…
Saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram Juno, Veii, and Augustus
A driving force in Vergil’s Aeneid is the hostility of Juno to the Trojans as they approach, and finally arrive in Italy. The epic in some ways mirrors the opposition encountered by Augustus as the new ruler of Rome. Juno’s opposition to the Trojans has its origin not only in Greek mythology, but in the history of the local peoples of Italy with whom early Romans had to contend. From the outset of the poem she becomes the personification of these…
Dido, Berenice, and Arsinoe: Aeneid 6.460
Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images
Journal Article Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. By David Morgan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 265 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20978-8.) Get access Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1666–1667, https://doi.org/10.2…
Love and Laserpicium in Catullus 7
A Scenic View of Reading
When someone says, That reminds me of the Neil Simon movie where ... and continues to describe particular circumstance and dialogue, common experience is shared. A message is received. Speaker and listener have mutual understanding of situation. The scene has done its job; it has organized experience in such way to act as metaphor that links real experience to another kind of understanding. What is often forgotten, however, is that the scene from…
Joyce Kozloff: Visionary Ornament
Dido, Berenice, and Arsinoe: Aeneid 6.460
A Scenic View of Reading
When someone says, That reminds me of the Neil Simon movie where ... and continues to describe particular circumstance and dialogue, common experience is shared. A message is received. Speaker and listener have mutual understanding of situation. The scene has done its job; it has organized experience in such way to act as metaphor that links real experience to another kind of understanding. What is often forgotten, however, is that the scene from…
Traditio: An Introduction to the Latin Language and Its Influence
Class Eye
Review| March 01 1993 Class Eye The Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars organized by the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego guest curated by Leah Oilman Photographic Resource CenterBoston, Massachusetts Nov. 20-Jan. 24 Patricia Johnston, Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is chair of the art department at Salem State College. Her book, Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen’s Advertising Photographs is forthcoming from the Univers…
Love and Laserpicium in Catullus 7
Indigenous Visions
Essay| June 01 1995 Indigenous Visions: An Interview with Carlota Duarte Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is an art historian. Her book Real Fantasies: Edward Stephen’s Advertising Photographs will be published next year by the University of California Press. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1995) 23 (1): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1995.23.1.8 Views Icon Views Articl…
Virtual Resistance
Review| June 01 1997 Virtual Resistance Anxious Libraries: Photography and the Fate of Reading Photographic Resource Center at Boston UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, November 22, 1996-January 31, 1997 Patricia Johnston, Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is Associate Professor of Art History at Salem State College and is on the board of directors of the Photographic Resource Center. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Goo…
Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography
During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work--which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, and almost every other popular magazine published in the United States--has not received the attention it deserves. At a time when photography was just beginning to replace drawings a…
Brady’s Nation
Review| October 01 1998 Brady’s Nation Mathew Brady and the Image of History, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1997-January 4, 1998 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 22-April 15, 1998 International Center of Photography/Midtown, New York, New York, June 12-September 6, 1998Mathew Brady and the Image of History, by Mary Panzer with an essay by Jeana K. Foley, S…
Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art
Journal Article Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art. By Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography. By Patricia Johnston. Berkeley: University of California Press Get access Pamela Walker Laird Pamela Walker Laird University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86…
Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images
Journal Article Visual Piety: A History and Theory of Popular Religious Images. By David Morgan. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xviii, 265 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-20978-8.) Get access Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1666–1667, https://doi.org/10.2…
Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography
Reviewed by: Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography* Patricia Johnston (bio) Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography. By Geoffrey Batchen. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. Pp. xii+273; illustrations, notes/references, index. $35. In 1828, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre wrote to his partner Nicéphore Niépce: “I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature.” Though textbooks today generally credit Daguerre and N…
Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times
Review| December 01 2000 Martyrs and Heroes in Modern Times Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 5-April 30, 2000Ben Shahn’s New York: The Photography of Modem Times, by Deborah Martin Kao, Laura Katzman and Jenna Webster, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2000, 340 pp./$45.00 (sb) The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C…
Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans
The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As impr…
Photo Economics
Essay| April 01 2006 Photo Economics The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture, 1884-1929, by Elspeth H. Brown, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 344 pp./$49.95 (hb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston is a professor of art history at Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Cul…
Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia
Modern Man
Book Review| March 01 2011 Modern Man Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens The Phillips CollectionWashington, DC October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens By Wendy A. Grossman International Arts and Artists, 2009184 pp./$39.95 (sb) Patricia Johnston Patricia Johnston PATRICIA JOHNSTON is a professor of Art History at Salem State University in Massachusetts and editor of Seeing High and Low: Representing…
Cara deum suboles: Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil’s pastoral landscape
The tragedies of Hercules and Orpheus in Vergil's Georgics anticipate their respective elevations in the afterlife
Saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram Juno, Veii, and Augustus
A driving force in Vergil’s Aeneid is the hostility of Juno to the Trojans as they approach, and finally arrive in Italy. The epic in some ways mirrors the opposition encountered by Augustus as the new ruler of Rome. Juno’s opposition to the Trojans has its origin not only in Greek mythology, but in the history of the local peoples of Italy with whom early Romans had to contend. From the outset of the poem she becomes the personification of these…
Vergil’s use of saevus (vs. Homer’S ΔΕΙΝOΣ) to depict Juno
Vergil’s depiction of Juno as saeva does not correspond to Homer’s depiction of Hera, but rather to a combination of Homer’s Hera and Pallas. Vergil’s Juno, moreover, is far less subservient to Jupiter (who is not really as active in the Aeneid as Zeus is in the Iliad ). While Homer frequently pairs Hera with Pallas Athena, Vergil’s Juno acts independently, while assuming in particular many of the traits of Homer’s Pallas Athena
Hera and Juno: The Functions of the Goddesses in Prehistoric and Historic Greece and Rome
Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid by Anne Rogerson
Reviewed by: Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid by Anne Rogerson Patricia A. Johnston Anne Rogerson. Virgil’s Ascanius: Imagining the Future in the Aeneid. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. viii, 237. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-11539-2. Ascanius, argues Rogerson (1), the Aeneid’s smallest hero, not only represents the glories to come after the Aeneid; Vergil also “uses Ascanius to represe…
The Mysteries of Mithras and Other Mystic Cults in the Roman World: Introduction. An Occasion to Deal with Mithraism Anew
I” is for “Italian”: Francis W. Edmonds and the Image Peddler in Nineteenth-Century American Visual Culture
Italian “image peddlers” sold small plaster sculptural reproductions door to door in the United States during the nineteenth century. Representations of these street vendors illuminate the histories of the art reproductions market, emigration of the Italian Catholic artisans who produced and sold classical and Renaissance figurines, and the Protestant middle-class consumers who purchased them. Using print images from abecedaries (alphabet books) …
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