Kim Collins
New interpretative label assignment and library research
Please make a consultation with me, Kim Collins, to discuss your assignment. Let me know the art work you have chosen.
Write a 500-1000 word biography for your object, considering these different object-human relationships and its (changing) function and significance over time. You may want to draw on the slave narratives you have read (and written), as well as your object descriptions. The biography is due Sep. 30.
- Subject Librarian, Kim Collins
Art History and Classics Librarian
Robert W Woodruff Library, Emory University
Reading List, a small selection
Consider the different relationships your object may have accrued in antiquity (who made, used, and viewed it? How did they interact with it? In what circumstances?). What might the object have represented to these people? How might their perspective change its meaning, specifically in terms of how slavery and enslaved people are shown?
- Gladiators
- Greek funerary sculpture
- White-ground lekythoi
- Athenian comedy, slave’s masks, Hellenistic terracottas
- Cinerary urns
- Female portraiture and hair
- Gladiators and caesars : the power of spectacle in ancient Rome
Köhne, Eckart., Cornelia. Ewigleben, and Ralph. Jackson. Gladiators and Caesars : The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome. London: British Museum Press, 2000.
Greek Funerary Sculpture by ISBN: 9780892366125Much of the sculpture created in ancient Greece that has survived is funerary in nature. These markers commemorating the dead were traditionally placed along roads near the entrances to cities, where they could be seen by all. Although the monuments vary greatly in style, quality, and elaboration, they reach across the millennia speaking the universal language of human grief. This illustrated catalogue presents fifty-nine Greek funerary monuments in the Antiquities collection of the Getty Museum. Spanning the Classical and Hellenistic periods, this collection offers new insight into Greek art and society that will be of interest to both scholars and the general public.
- Not the classical ideal : Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art
Cohen, Beth. Not the Classical Ideal : Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2000.