Exam 1

Sensory Studies

David Howes

Anthropology

E.B Tylor

Archeology

Heinrich Schliemann

Old Materialism 

Marxist approach to materialism

Takes into account the human intervention in the production of the object

=1860s

New Materialism 

"Body of post-humanist cultural theory that radically rethinks Cartesian dualisms such as nature/culture, matter/mind, human/non-human" Melissa Mueller and Mario Telò

=1890s

Melissa Mueller and Mario Telò

"Body of post-humanist cultural theory that radically rethinks Cartesian dualisms such as nature/culture, matter/mind, human/non-human"

Material Culture Studies 

Progressive shift from a philological approach to Antiquity to a more sensual encounter to the remains of Antiquity

Aim to challenge the hegemony of the Ancient texts in favour of a domestic and relatable antiquity from a more visual perspective

Epitome of Romanticism in Arts

The Nightmare, Fuseli, 1781

Neoclassicist Architecture

The Palladian Somerset House, by William Chambers

1768

Foundation of the Royal Academy (Chambers, Reynolds, Gainsborough)

Emphasising order, restraint, clarity, virtue and simplicity = neoclassicism=norms

the Royal Academy

Rebellious movement rejecting the Rococo style perceived as frivolous and corrupted

Neoclassicism

Epitome of the Neoclassicism

Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

The 'Grand Tour'

Aimed to encounter the greatness of classical art through Italy cf Dilettanti Society

Antiquarianism

Focus on the empirical evidence of the past

The Antiquities of Athens, James Stuart and Nicholas Revette, 1762

Discovery of Pompeii

1748

Reaction to the discovery of Pompeii

Mixed feelings between following the steps of the Antiquity but colours and erotica artworks were opposed to the classical ideas

Emphasises whiteness = beautiful = chromophobic tradition

History of the Art of Antiquity, 1764

First Art historian

Wincklemann

According to Winkleman

Greek art reached perfection though "his noble simplicity and quiet grandeur" =def of NC

Sublime

E.Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the sublime and Beautiful, 1757

Definition of the sublime

'whatever is in any sort terrible or is conversant about terrible objects or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime'

Lorna Hardwick, Reception Studies, 2003

"Reception studies are not only concerned with individual texts and their relationships with one another but also the broader cultural processes which shape and make up those relationships"

Hypotext

An earlier text which serves as the source of a subsequent piece of literature (=hypertext)

Central to reception studies

the question of rewriting which is valorised as a subversion act

Central to CRS

the question of misappropriation of Antiquity

Le National-Socialisme et l'Antiquité, 2008

Johann Chapoutot

About Johann Chapoutot's book

fantasy of Greek bodies to create a supremacy of white bodies

Thinking about the past in visual terms rather than in a philological approach is

A pivotal turn in the Victorian Era

Alma Tadema, The collector of Pictures at the Age of Augustus, 1867

Meta-archeological fiction