Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity (Institute for the Study of Ancient World Exhibition Catalogs) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 069116942X ISBN 13: 9780691169422

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Ideals of character and beauty, and conceptions of self and society, were in flux during Late Antiquity, a period of extensive dramatic cultural upheaval for the Roman world, as the extraordinary growth of Christianity eclipsed paganism. Textiles from Late Antiquity document transformations of cultural traditions and societal values at the most intimate level of the individual body and the home. These textile artifacts are fragile, preserved only in arid...

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"Almost alone among contemporary critics, Tzvetan Todorov has chosen to apply his prodigious talents to the literature of twentieth-century totalitarianism. His unique gift is his ability to elucidate the memoirs and writings of some of the century's greatest survivors, not merely discovering their literary qualities but also finding in their works moral and political lessons relevant to us all."--Anne Applebaum

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About the Author

Thelma K. Thomas is currently an associate professor at the Instituteof Fine Arts of New York University. She is the author of Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: Images for this World and the Next
(Princeton) and the coeditor (with Elizabeth Sears) of Reading Medieval
Images: The Art Historian and the Object.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 069116942X
• ISBN 13: 9780691169422
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 152
• Editor: Thomas Thelma K.