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Author Jones, Frederick, 1955- author.

Title The boundaries of art and social space in Rome : the caged bird and other art forms / Frederick Jones.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Art; 2 The Roman Garden; 3 The Garden Room at Prima Porta; 4 Tapestry in Rome; 5 The Caged Bird; Luxury and craftsmanship; Metaphoric content; Cognition, mental modelling and drama; Social context: collectability, value, and fashion; 6 Conclusion: Self-Projecting Inside and Out; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary "This volume focuses on four cultural phenomena in the Roman world of the late Republic - the garden, a garden painting, tapestry, and the domestic caged bird. They accept or reject a categorisation as art in varying degrees, but they show considerable overlaps in the ways in which they impinge on social space. The study looks, therefore, at the borderlines between things that variously might or might not seem to be art forms. It looks at boundaries in another sense too. Boundaries between different social modes and contexts are embodied and represented in the garden and paintings of gardens, reinforced by the domestic use of decorative textile work, and replicated in the bird cage. The boundaries thus thematised map on to broader boundaries in the Roman house, city, and wider world, becoming part of the framework of the citizen's cognitive development and individual and civic identities. Frederick Jones presents a novel analysis that uses the perspective of cognitive development in relation to how elements of domestic and urban visual culture and the broader world map on to each other. His study for the first time understands the domestic caged bird as a cultural object and uniquely brings together four disparate cases under the umbrella of 'art'"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Art and society -- Rome.
Cognition and culture -- Rome.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jones, Frederick, 1955- Boundaries of art and social space in Rome. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 9781472526120 (DLC) 2016018035
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