Rethinking The Pompeian House

Author : M. Taylor Lauritsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472473363
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Pompeian House written by M. Taylor Lauritsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since large-scale excavations began in the mid-19th century, scholarly studies of houses in Pompeii have emphasised the âe~publicâe(tm) nature of their design. Most Pompeian dwellings are viewed as spaces with high levels of transparency and permeability to which non-residents were afforded a certain degree of unregulated access. This theoretical paradigm has developed, however, without consideration for doors, partitions, and other closure systems that controlled visual and physical contact between various parts of the residence. By repopulating the houses of Pompeii with these boundaries, this book challenges the concept of the âe~public houseâe(tm), demonstrating that access to, and movement within, dwellings was in fact highly regulated by the inhabitants. This represents a fundamentally new perspective on the relationship between house and society in the Roman world. The data employed in this book was generated by the Doors of Pompeii and Herculaneum Project, a multi-phase architectural survey of closure systems and their archaeological vestiges that was initiated in 2009 and examined and recorded 610 doorways in 31 houses over a period of three years.

Author : Jessica Davis Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patrons, Houses and Viewers in Pompeii written by Jessica Davis Powers and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penelope M. Allison
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770943
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pompeian Households written by Penelope M. Allison and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Pompeian material culture have traditionally been dominated by art-historical approaches, but recently there has been a renewed and burgeoning interest in Pompeian houses for studies of Roman domestic behavior. This book is concerned with contextualized Pompeian household artifacts and their role in deepening our understanding of household behavior at Pompeii. It consists of a study of the contents of thirty so-called atrium houses in Pompeii to investigate the spatial distribution of household activities, both within each architectural room type and across the house. It also uses this material to investigate the state of occupancy of these houses at the time of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. It thus examines artifact assemblages within their spatial and decorative contexts for a more material cultural approach to these remains and for the information which they provide on living conditions in Pompeii during the last decades. In this it takes a critical perspective the textual nomenclature which is traditionally applied to Pompeian room types.

Author : David John Newsome
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forum and the City written by David John Newsome and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis details the development of fora in Rome and Pompeii in order that our understanding of these spaces as 'centres' accounts for their changing relationship with the city, between the third century B.C. and the second century A.D. It is a diachronic study of spatial practice and the representation of space, based on archaeological evidence for infrastructures of movement and textual evidence for the articulation of spatial concepts. Having asserted the importance of movement in shaping the perception of space in antiquity, this thesis details the changes to the physical disposition, the management of access, and the representation of fora. It concludes that while the centrality of the Forum Romanum was related to its potential for through movement, access was increasingly restricted in the late-first century B.C. This changing disposition of public space informed the development of the imperial fora, which in turn informed the development of fora outside of the city of Rome. Fora changed from shortcuts to obstacles in the city; from spaces of movement through to spaces of movement to. This represents a fundamental redefinition of their relationship with the city of which they were a part, and of their 'centrality' in both practice and representation.

Author : Brian Carmany
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452092885
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Eros written by Brian Carmany and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Eros uses modern popular culture to examine sex, bodies, and gender in the ancient world in all their complexities.

Author : Imogen Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351551078
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867?896 " written by Imogen Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aesthetes in Africa to the cultural history of the teapot, the essays in this collection contribute to scholarly debates across a wide range of disciplines. Addressing the question of whether "eclectic" relationships in Victorian decorative arts are actually self-conscious iconographic schemes or merely random juxtapositions of assorted objects, Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867-1896: Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts, argues that no firm demarcation exists between the two movements examined here. In the process, the contributors explore a wide variety of interiors in locations as diverse as London, Cornwall, New England, and Tangiers. Analyzing spaces public and private, sacred and secular, the volume poses several historiographic challenges. Drawing on a wide range of feminist and queer theories, the book questions the identification of nineteenth-century interiors as exclusively female or family spaces. The collection also addresses the complex and temporary character of interiors, and responds to the recent scholarly trend to return questions of feeling and embodied experience to the study of the decorative arts.

Author : Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691069876
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant to live as a Roman.

Author : Eric Poehler
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Pompeii written by Eric Poehler and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katharine T. von Stackelberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190272341
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing the New Romans written by Katharine T. von Stackelberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways in which Classics has shaped modern Western culture, but very little attention has been directed toward the reception of classical architecture. Housing the New Romans: Architectual Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World addresses this gap by investigating ways in which appropriation and allusion facilitated the reception of Classical Greece and Rome through the requisition and redeployment of classicizing tropes to create neo-Antique sites of "dwelling" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume, across nine essays, will cover both European and American iterations of place making, including Sir John Soanes' house in London, the Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris, and the Getty Villa in California. By focusing on structures and places that are oriented towards private life-houses, hotels, clubs, tombs, and gardens-the volume directs the critical gaze towards diverse and complex sites of curatorial self-fashioning. The goal of the volume is to provide a multiplicity of interpretative frameworks (e.g. object-agency enchantment, hyperreality, memory-infrastructure) that may be applied to the study of architectural reception. This critical approach makes Housing the New Romans the first work of its kind in the emerging field of architectural and landscape reception studies and in the hitherto textually dominated field of classical reception.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses & Society in Pompeii & Herculaneum written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: