Research Guides @ Fordham: Fordham Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art: Theory

General Resources

Looking at Greek Art by Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell
Call Number: (RH) N5630 .S735 2011
Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Handbook of Archaeological Theories by R. Alexander Bentley (Editor); Herbert D. G. Maschner (Editor); Christopher Chippindale (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) +CC72 .H36 2008
Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2008.
The Language of Images in Roman Art by Tonio Hölscher; Anne-Marie Künzl-Snodgrass (Translator); Anthony Snodgrass (Translator)
Call Number: (RH) N5760 .H6413 2004
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Critical Terms for Art History by Robert S. Nelson (Editor); Richard Shiff (Editor)
Call Number: N34 .C75 2003 (RH)
University of Chicago Press, 2003. 2nd edition.

Semiotics

"Reading" Greek Culture: Texts and Images, Rituals and Myths by Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Call Number: (RH) DF78 .S67 1991
Oxford: Claredon Press, 1991.
"Reading" Greek Death to the End of the Classical Period by Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Call Number: PA3015.D4 S65 1995 (RH)
Oxford: Claredon Press, 1995

Semotics: A method in art history that looks at images as a collection of signs and structures.

Iconography and Iconology

Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae (LIMC) by John Boardman (Editor)
Call Number: (RH) NX650.M9 L48
8 volumes in 16 bindings
Artemis Verlag, 1981-1997.

Iconography: A method in art history that studies the description, identification, and interpretation of the content of images.

Iconology: A method in art history that studies the symbolism or symbolic representation of the content of images.

Meaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin Panofsky
Call Number: N7445.2 .P35 1982 (LC)
University of Chicago Press, 1982. Reprint.
Ancient Greek Art and Iconography by Warren G. Moon (Editor)
Call Number: N5633 .A63 1983
University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.
Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity by Susan Woodford
Call Number: (RH) N7760 .W56 2003
Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Poststructuralism

A City of Images: Iconography and Society in Ancient Greece by Claude Berard, et. al.
Call Number: (RH) DF275 .C36 1989
Princeton University Press, 1989.

Poststructuralism: A method in art history that allows for multiple meanings, limited by contextual circumstances, to be possible for an image.

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