Miniature Crowd Frescoes from Knossos: A Topography of the World Seen

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JMA" target="_blank" >https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JMA</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jma.25521" target="_blank" >10.1558/jma.25521</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Miniature Crowd Frescoes from Knossos: A Topography of the World Seen

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This study discusses prevailing interpretations of the miniature frescoes from Knossos as depictions of some sort of ritual or ceremony, located topographically in Knossos’s Central and West Courts. It revises the question of the narrativity of Minoan frescoes, based on the interpretive approach developed by Alpers in her exploration of seventeenth-century Dutch art and ‘visual culture’. Applying Alpers’s insights for Minoan frescoes allows for an original interpretation based on a formal analysis of their non-narrative devices ofrepresentation, namely (1) vertical perspective, (2) map-like composition and (3) suppressed focalisation. The study demonstrates that once their representational strategy is recognised as non-narrative, it is no longer possible to interpret the subject theme of the Knossian miniatures by applying the frequently used narrative analytical category of ritual as a transformative ‘event’. Instead, the operation of these devices focuses our attention on the performative dimension of viewing as testifying to the knowledge of the land and societyand the specific way in which the Knossian miniature frescoes absorb their viewer into this performance.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Miniature Crowd Frescoes from Knossos: A Topography of the World Seen

Popis výsledku anglicky

This study discusses prevailing interpretations of the miniature frescoes from Knossos as depictions of some sort of ritual or ceremony, located topographically in Knossos’s Central and West Courts. It revises the question of the narrativity of Minoan frescoes, based on the interpretive approach developed by Alpers in her exploration of seventeenth-century Dutch art and ‘visual culture’. Applying Alpers’s insights for Minoan frescoes allows for an original interpretation based on a formal analysis of their non-narrative devices ofrepresentation, namely (1) vertical perspective, (2) map-like composition and (3) suppressed focalisation. The study demonstrates that once their representational strategy is recognised as non-narrative, it is no longer possible to interpret the subject theme of the Knossian miniatures by applying the frequently used narrative analytical category of ritual as a transformative ‘event’. Instead, the operation of these devices focuses our attention on the performative dimension of viewing as testifying to the knowledge of the land and societyand the specific way in which the Knossian miniature frescoes absorb their viewer into this performance.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60102 - Archaeology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

ISSN

0952-7648

e-ISSN

1743-1700

Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

30

Strana od-do

"169–197"

Kód UT WoS článku

999

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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