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Art-archaeology: the materiality of classical art history

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Frank Davis Memorial Lecture 2010
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All art history involves inherent tensions between the materiality of the works of art - their rootedness in time and space - and the mobility of the ideas and imagery that they embody. The tension is all the more striking in the study of ancient art. On the one hand, classical art history, with its traditional dependence on archaeology, deals with perishable, intractable objects dug up in particular places. On the other hand, it has always been concerned with the intangible spread of Grae...

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University of Oxford
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SSD
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School of Archaeology
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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