Bettina Bergmann and Christine Kondoleon
The Art of Ancient Spectacle
Yale University Press,
1999.
384 pp.; 15 color ills.; 224 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(0300077335)
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For some years now, a lingering sense of inadequacy has plagued U.S. historians of ancient art and text, a sense of having somehow got behind in the great “race for theory” (Barbara Christian’s phrase). Everyone elsewhere and in other fields always seemed to have read more broadly and to have thought more originally about theoretical frameworks for scholarship. But The Art of Ancient Spectacle, an elegantly produced and intellectually sophisticated collection of nineteen essays on...