Landscape and Space Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art

by Elsner, Jas

• ISBN13: 9780192845955
• ISBN10: 0192845950
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-03-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jaś Elsner, Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Jaś Elsner is Professor of Late Antique Art at the University of Oxford and Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is also Visiting Professor of Art and Religion at the University of Chicago, and External Scientific Member of
the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Max Planck Society, as well as a Fellow of the British Academy. He works on all areas of art and religion in antiquity and the early middle ages across Europe and Western Asia, including
pilgrimage, travel-writing, and the description of art in texts, and is particularly interested in the problems of comparativism in art history. Along with the other contributors to this book, he is a member of the Center for Global Ancient Art at the University of Chicago which is committed to
comparative study of archaeological and art historical issues in all cultures across the ancient world.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Landscape and Space, Jaś Elsner
1. Inventing Wilderness: The Birth of Landscape Representation in China, Wu Hung
2. Statues, Stelai, and Turning-Posts in Greece, ca. 565-ca. 465 BE: The Limits of Iconography, Richard Neer
3. Locating Landscape in Maya Painting, Claudia Brittenham
4. Space-Object-Landscape: Sacred and 'Sacro-Idyllic' from Dunhuang via Stonehenge to Roman Wall-Painting, Jaś Elsner