Autor(en)

Burke, Peter:

Verlag / Jahr

Cornell University Press, 07.2001.

Format / Einband

hardcover w/ dj. 223 Seiten

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 630 g

ISBN

080143968X

EAN

9780801439681

Bestell-Nr

1223049

Bemerkungen

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). Very good, clean copy. A Chinese painter of bamboo is said to have been advised by a colleague to study the bamboo for many days, but to complete the painting in a few minutes. This book was written relatively quickly, but my preoccupation with the subject goes back more than thirty years, when I was studying the rise of a sense of anachronism in European culture, and realized that while texts might not raise the question whether the past was remote or distant, painters could not avoid the issue and had to decide whether to paint Alexander the Great (say) in the costume of their own time or in something differ-ent. Unfortunately the series for which I was writing at the time did not include illustrations. Since that time I have had many opportunities to use images as historical evidence and even to teach a course on the subject to first-year Cambridge undergraduates. Out of that course, devised and taught with the late Bob Scribner, comes this book, a contribution to a series of which Bob was one of the editors. We had hoped to write a book of this kind together and I now dedicate it to his memory. I should like to thank my wife Maria Lúcia, who has taught me the meaning of the phrase 'my best critic', together with Stephen Bann and Roy Porter for their constructive comments on the first draft of this book, and Jos Garcia González for drawing my attention to Diego de Saavedra Fajardo's reflections on political horsemanship. ISBN 9780801439681

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