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Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 61/62: Spring/Autumn 2012

Sarcophagi
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Res 61/62, Sarcophagi, is guest edited by Wu Hung and Jas Elsner. It includes "Chinese coffins from the first millennium b.c. and early images of the afterworld" by Alain Thote; "Art and personhood" by Bjorn Ewald; "Western Han sarcophagi and the transformation of Chinese funerary art" by Zheng Yan; "Reading identity on Roman strigillated sarcophagi" by Janet Huskinson; "'A Tomb Both Great and Blameless'" by Richard Neer; "Funerary Spatiality" by Lillian Lan-ying Tseng; "'Nero's Tomb' and the crisis of the third century" by Edmund Thomas; "Jouissance of death?" by Eugene Wang; "Reading images without texts on Roman sarcophagi" by Paul Zanker; "Decorative imperatives between concealment and display" by Jas Elsner; "Han sarcophagi" by Wu Hung; "Framing the dead on Roman sarcophagi" by Verity Platt; "Presentation, (re)animation, and the enchantments of technology" by Finbarr Barry Flood; "Death panels" by T. J. Clark; and contributions to Documents and Discussions by Andrew Scherer and Roberta Bonetti. Also included are contributions to Lectures--Color by Alexandre Tokovinine, Cameron L. McNeil, Timothy W. Pugh and Leslie G. Cecil, Leonardo Lopez Lujan, Douglas K. Charles, and Warren R. DeBoer.

Author Biography:

Francesco Pellizzi is Associate of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Release date Australia
February 4th, 2013
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Francesco Pellizzi
  • Guest editor Hung Wu
  • Guest editor Jas Elsner
Illustrations
186 black and white illustrations
Pages
345
Dimensions
213x273x25
ISBN-13
9780873658645
Product ID
20280810

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