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Index
Half title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Table of contents
Figures
Preface
The experiment: methods – images – objects
Methods
Images
Objects
The Karlsruhe hydria.
The Pergamon frieze.
The Louvre sarcophagus.
Iconology
1 Introducing iconology
1) What is iconology?
2) Iconology: premises, positions, and problems
Riegl and Panofsky: an overture to iconology.
Panofsky between Kant and Warburg: the shaping of iconology.
Iconology after Panofsky: simplification and iconoclasm.
2 Iconology in action
1) The Karlsruhe hydria: conflict, consolation, and Athens
An iconographic analysis.
An iconological synthesis.
2) The Pergamon frieze: culture, cosmos, and family politics
An iconographic analysis.
An iconological synthesis.
3) The Louvre sarcophagus: why a hunter needs a sword
An iconographic analysis.
An iconological synthesis.
3 Narratives of object and meaning
1) Iconology as experiment: the results
2) Iconology and ancient art scholarship
Discussions of the method.
A historiography of iconology in ancient art scholarship.
3) Conclusions
Semiotics
4 Introducing semiotics
1) What is semiotics?
2) Semiotics: premises, positions, and problems
Saussure and Peirce: the foundations of semiotics.
Semiotics, structuralism, and post-structuralism: from Roland Barthes to Jacques Derrida.
Semiotics and art history: style, gaze, and narrative.
5 Semiotics in action
1) The Karlsruhe hydria: thresholds of desire, choice, and crisis
Semantics.
Syntactics.
Pragmatics.
2) The Pergamon frieze: thresholds of being, dominance, and the past
Semantics.
Syntactics.
Pragmatics.
3) The Louvre sarcophagus: thresholds of loyalty, conflict, and fate
Semantics.
Syntactics.
Pragmatics.
6 Narratives of sign and signification
1) Semiotics as experiment: the results
2) Semiotics and ancient art scholarship
Discussions of the method.
A historiography of semiotics in ancient art scholarship.
Semiotics and form.
Semiotics and the gaze.
Semiotics and narrative.
3) Conclusions
Image studies
7 Introducing image studies
1) What is image studies?
2) Image studies: premises, positions, and problems
Visual culture studies and the pictorial turn.
Bildwissenschaft and the iconic turn.
The picture – from metaphysics to physics.
8 Image studies in action
1) The Karlsruhe hydria: the pot as spin doctor
The hydria and its spatial design.
Space, design, and content – an iconographic perspective.
Space and narrative towards the end of the fifth century.
2) The Pergamon frieze: myth outside the box
The Great Altar and its spatial design.
Space, design, and content – the Great Frieze, from a distance and close up.
Space and narrative in the Hellenistic world.
3) The Louvre sarcophagus: facing Atalanta
The sarcophagus and its spatial design.
Space, design, and content – story and sequence.
Space and narrative towards the end of the second century CE.
9 Narratives of space and perspective
1) Image studies as experiment: the results
2) Image studies and ancient art scholarship
Physicality and performativity.
Mediality.
3) Conclusions
10 The study of mythological images as threesome – assessing the experiment
1) The methods and their trajectories
2) The objects through the methods
The Karlsruhe hydria.
The Pergamon frieze.
The Louvre sarcophagus.
3) Mythological images and iterative analysis: a conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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