Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism (Classical Presences) 9780192660572, 9780192845665, 0192660578

Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past: Excessive Objects and the Emergence of a Style in the Age of Neoclassicism (Classical Presences) 9780192845665, 0192845667

Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments o

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The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture 9780226570655

In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece.

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Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: Aesthetics and History in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199695843, 0199695849

This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eigh

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Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780199660513, 0199660514

Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about and represent sex, what social i

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The Historicity of International Politics: Imperialism and the Presence of the Past 1009199056, 9781009199056

The past is constantly present, not least in the study of imperialism and imperial forms of power in international polit

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Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past 9780812204087

Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of th

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Post-Ottoman Topologies: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State 9781789202410

How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective

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The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution 0801838037

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Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self (Classical Presences) 9780199656677, 0199656673

Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his

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The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack 0190932694, 9780190932695

The Presence of the Past offers a new perspective on Hollywood's "New Wave" as engaged with the vitality

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