The Ancient Art of Emulation

Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity

Bibliographic Data

ID19923288
AuthorsElaine K Gazda
EditorsElaine Gazda
Year2002
Pages300
Publication date2002-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe ancient art of emulation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3998/mpub.15936
OpenAlexW389120206
Open LibraryOL18564045M
ISBN9780472111893
LanguageEN
Citations received49

All too often, museums throughout world label their sculpture and wall paintings as Roman after a Greek original. In this book, Elaine K. Gazda and contributors question often too simplistic, deeply ingrained thinking that underlies this view of relationship between Greek and art. Examining problems associated with such thinking by situating them within a broad chronological framework, The Ancient Art of Emulation calls attention to many of sources underlying traditional ingrained prejudices. The essays in this book underscore need, in case of art, to distinguish more clearly than we have done in past what originality---or invention---meant to Romans, and how those notions differ from what our Romanticist/modernist expectations have led us to expect in present. This book builds upon revisionist scholarship of past three decades, which redefines a number of terms of discussion of Roman copies by reclassifying many of them as neoclassical or idealising works and treating them as legitimate expressions of cultural concerns. The contributors extend that line of inquiry by considering recent discourse on copying and originality as well as on related issues such as imitation, artistic agency, influence, appropriation, and authenticity. The chapters are presented in an unorthodox reverse chronological sequence in order to emphasise how thought and tastes of recent centuries have conditioned our views of classical past and how the copy must be seen as an artificial construct, product of modern prejudices and their intellectual sources. The Ancient Art of Emulation will appeal to a broad range of intellectual interests and humanistic disciplines. In addition to classical archaeologists and historians of ancient art, it will speak to art historians of later periods, practising artists, and art critics, as well as scholars and students who have an interest in phenomenon of artistic imitation

Art · Emulation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Psychology · Social Psychology · Art criticism · History · Originality · Psychological aspects · Reproduction

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