Screen LibraryThe smells and senses of antiquity in the modern imagination /
"This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among the senses olfaction in particular has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature, which makes...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Imagines - classical receptions in the visual and performing arts
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| Summary: |
"This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity. Among the senses olfaction in particular has often been overlooked in classical reception studies due to its evanescent nature, which makes this sense difficult to apprehend in its past instantiations. And yet, the smells associated with a given figure or social group convey a rich imagery which in turn connotes specific values: perfumes, scents and foul odours both reflect and mould the ways in which a society thinks or acts. Smells also help to distinguish between male and female, citizens and strangers, and play an important role during rituals. The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination focuses on the representation of ancient smells - both enticing and repugnant - in the visual and performative arts from the late 18th century up to the 21st century. The individual contributions explore painting, sculpture, literature and film, but also museum exhibitions, advertising, television series and graphic novels, which have all played a part in reshaping modern audiences' perceptions and experiences of the antique"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350169722 1350169722 |
| Index Number: | PA3015 |
| CLC: |
J05 I106 |
| Call Number: | I106/S638 |
| Contents: | Introduction : the fragrant and the foul : what did antiquity smell like? / Adeline Grand-Cleḿent and Charlotte Ribeyrol -- part I. What smell is the sacred? : the sensoriality of antique rituals. 'Unguent from a Carven jar' : odour and perfume in Arthur Machen's The hill of dreams (1907) / Catherine Maxwell. Incense and perfumes for Isis : sensorial reconstruction of the Pompeian ritual of Isis in the visual arts / Anna Gued́on -- part II. Gendered smells and bodies. From gorgons to Goop : scent therapy and the smell of transformation in antiquity and the holistic health movement / Margaret Day Elsner. The smell of marble : warmth and sensuality of the twenty-first century classical bodies / Tiphaine-Annabelle Besnard and Fabien Bièvre-Perrin -- part III. Sensing otherness from canvas to screen. Sensing the past : sensory stimuli in nineteenth-century depictions of Roman baths / Giacomo Savani. Evoking empathy on screen : smell in the 21st-century reception of antiquity / Kim Berdeen -- part IV. Recreating the fragrance(s) of the past. Archiving the intengible : preserving smells, historic perfumes and other ways of approaching the scented past / Cecilia Bembibre. The 'persistence' of an ancient perfume : the rose of Paestum / Giulia Corrente. The fragrance of ancient kyphi : an experimental workshop / Amandine Declercq -- part IV. Re-enacting the fragrance(s) of the past. 'Balsama et crocum per gradus theatri fluere iussit' (Vita Hadr. 19,5) : the contemporary reception of smells and senses in the Roman theatre / Raffaella Viccei. Incense on the grass : a strongly 'perfumed' Libation bearers (1999) / Martina Treu. 'Untarnished experiences? : re-enactors and their appraisal of smell as gateway into the ancient world / Martin Linde -- Envoi : 'scratch and sniff : recovering and rediscovering Roman aromas / Mark Bradley. |