Looking at laughter : humor, power, and transgression in Roman visual culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 / J...
Looking at laughter : humor, power, and transgression in Roman visual culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 / J...
Looking at laughter : humor, power, and transgression in Roman visual culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 / John R. Clarke.
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Call Numbers
N700.41709/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 321 p., 24 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Visual Humor -- 1. Words or Images? Degrees of Visuality in Roman Humor -- 2. Funny Faces - Onstage and Off -- 3. Double Takes -- 4. Apotropaic Laughter -- Pt. 2. Social Humor -- 5. Power over the Other - or the Other's Power? Laughing at the Pygmy and the Aethiops -- 6. Who's Laughing? Moder...
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Publisher
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"In this illustrated book, his third to examine an aspect of Roman visual culture, John R. Clarke explores the question, "What made Romans laugh?"" "Looking at Laughter examines a heterogeneous corpus of visual material, from the crudely obscene to the exquisitely sophisticated and from the playful to the deadly serious - everything from street the...
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Full title
Looking at laughter : humor, power, and transgression in Roman visual culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 / John R. Clarke.
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Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts book.
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-297) and index.
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Call Numbers
N700.41709/1
Record Identifier
74VK3Dz702K3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3Dz702K3
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ISBN
0520237331 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520237339 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
700.4170937
MMS ID
991023659049702626
