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Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity - Squire, Michael
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The relation between the visual and the verbal spheres has been much contested in recent years, from laments about the 'logocentricism' of the academy to the heralding of the 'pictorial turn' of the multimedia age. This lavishly illustrated book recontextualises these debates through the historical lens of Greek and Roman antiquity. Dr Squire shows how modern Western concepts of 'words' and 'pictures' derive from a post-Reformation tradition of theology and aesthetics. Where modern critics assume a bipartite separation ...

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Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity 2015, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781107657540

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Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521756013

Hardcover