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Dalmatia and the Mediterranean: Portable Archaeology and the Poetics of Influence
Contributor(s): Payne, Alina (Editor)
ISBN: 9004263861     ISBN-13: 9789004263864
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE:   $244.15  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | History - General
- History | Ancient - Rome
- Architecture | History - General
Dewey: 937.3
LCCN: 2013038652
Series: Mediterranean Art Histories
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.95 lbs) 492 pages
 
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Using the Braudelian concept of the Mediterranean this volume focuses on the condition of "coastal exchanges" involving the Dalmatian littoral and its Adriatic and more distant maritime network. Spalato and Ragusa intersect with Constantinople, Cairo and Spanish Naples just as Sinan, Palladio and Robert Adam cross paths in this liquid expanse. Concentrating on materiality and on the arts, architecture in particular, the authors identify portability and hybridity as characteristic of these exchanges, and tease out expected and unexpected serendipitous moments when they occurred. Focusing on translation and its instruments these essays expand the traditional concept of influence by thrusting mobility and the "hardware" of cultural transmission, its mechanisms, rather than its effects, into the foreground.

Contributors include: Doris Behrens-Abouseif, SOAS, University of London; Josko Belamaric, Institute of Art History, Split; Marzia Faietti, Uffizi, Florence; Jasenka Gudelj, University of Zagreb; Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University; Ioli Kalavrezou, Harvard University; Suzanne Marchand, State University of Louisiana; Erika Naginski, Harvard University; G lru Necipoğlu, Harvard University; Goran Niksic, City of Split, Split; Alina Payne, Harvard University; Avinoam Shalem, Columbia University and David Young Kim, University of Pennsylvania