Power, Image, and Memory: Historical Subjects in Art Peter J. Holliday

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• ISBN 10: 0190901101
• ISBN 13: 9780190901103
• Author:  Peter J. Holliday

Those who write history determine its narrative, whether through written text or through the visual language of art and public monuments. Power, Image, and Memory examines a wide variety of artistic traditions, showing how art commemorating historical events can shape collective memory, and with it, the identities of social groups and nations. From the Mesopotamians to the present day, leaders and societies have used art to frame and memorialize important events. This account establishes a dialogue among traditions in a series of case studies, ranging from the reliefs at Ramses’ temple at Abu Simbel and the ancient Greek “Alexander Mosaic” to the Heian Period Japanese scroll of the Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace, the Benin Bronzes, Diego Vel?zquez’s Surrender at Breda, and Picasso’s Guernica. Weaving together meticulous historic detail, theory, and visual analysis, this volume offers a complex picture of the power of art and memory, as well as of the life of these monuments and messages over time, distanced from their original cultures and context. With insights relevant to contemporary debates reexamining historic monuments, Power, Image, and Memory sheds new light on the power of art to shape social memory and identity

Table contents:

1. The Victory Stele of Naram-Sîn: The Genesis of a Commemorative Tradition
2. The Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel: Message Control in Ancient Egypt
3. The Alexander Mosaic: Commemorative Practice in Greek Polis and Macedonian Empire
4. The Column of Trajan: Images of Power at Rome’s Center and Periphery
5. The Bayeux Embroidery: Stitching New Identities in Medieval England
6. Night Attack on the Sanjō Palace: Unscrolling the Warrior Ethos of Medieval Japan
7. The Battle of San Romano: Painting and the Perpetuation of Memory in Renaissance Florence
8. The Benin Plaques: Displaced Memories of an African Empire
9. The Hünernāme: Shaping Identity and Ensuring Legacy at the Ottoman Court
10. The Surrender of Breda: Public Gesture and Private Memory in Baroque Spain
11. The Death of General Wolfe: Fashioning Imperial and Colonial Identities in the Americas
12. Guernica: Modernism and Picasso’s Blasted Allegory

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