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• Introduction to Vergil's Aeneid by R. Ganiban
• Introduction to book
• 6: its role in the Aeneid
• Map
• Latin text and commentary
• Appendix A: Vergil's meter
• Appendix B: stylistic terms.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was a succesful photographer in the advertising industry. His commercial photography appeared in "Vanity Fair", "Vogue", "Ladies Home Journal" and almost all popular magazines in the US. At a time when photography was just beginning to replace drawings as the favoured advertising medium, Steichen helped transform the producers of small family business products to national household names. In this book, the author uses Steichen's work as a case study of the history of advertising and the American economy between the wars. She traces the development of Steichen's work from an early naturalistic style through to increasingly calculated attempts to construct consumer fantasies. By the 1930s, alluring images of romance and class, developed in collaboration with agency staff and packaged in overtly manipulative and persuasive photographs, became Steichen's stock-in-trade. He was most frequently chosen by agencies for products targeted towards women: his images depicted vivacious singles, earnest new mothers and other stereotypically female life stages that reveal a great deal about the industry's perceptions of and pitches to this particular audience.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Patricia Johnston
• 1. Educating for Distinction? Art, Hierarchy, and Charles Willson Peale's Staircase Group David Steinberg
• 2. Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre: Social Tensions in an Ideal World Patricia Johnston
• 3. Cartoons in Color: David Gilmour Blythe's Very Uncivil War Sarah Burns
• 4. "Ain't I a Woman?": Anne Whitney, Edmonia Lewis, and the Iconography of Emancipation Melissa Dabakis
• 5. Cultural Racism: Resistance and Accommodation in the Civil War Art of Eastman Johnson and Thomas Nast Patricia Hills
• 6. Custer's Last Stand: High-Low on Old and New Frontiers Patricia M. Burnham
• 7. Reenvisioning "This Well-Wooded Land" Janice Simon
• 8. At Home with Mona Lisa: Consumers and Commercial Visual Culture, 1880-1920 Katharine Martinez
• 9. Gustav Stickley's Designs for the Home: An Activist Aesthetic for the Upwardly Mobile Arlette Klaric
• 10. Handicraft, Native American Art, and Modern Indian Identity Elizabeth Hutchinson
• 11. Alone on the Sidewalks of New York: Alfred Stieglitz's Photography, 1892-1913 Joanne Lukitsh
• 12. The Colors of Modernism: Georgia O'Keeffe, Cheney Brothers, and the Relationship between Art and Industry in the 1920s Regina Lee Blaszczyk
• 13. The Invisibility of Race in Modernist Representation: Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic Folk Donna M. Cassidy
• 14. Caricaturing the Gringo Tourist: Diego Rivera's Folkloric and Touristic Mexico and Miguel Covarrubias's Sunday Afternoon in Xochimilco Jeffrey Belnap
• 15. The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict Alan Wallach Contributors List of Illustrations Index.
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This cutting-edge volume presents a sweeping view of the evolution of visual culture in the United States through fifteen absorbing case studies by top scholars of American art that explore visual culture's engagement with social controversy. Written especially for this work in lively and accessible language, the essays illuminate what visual forms - including traditional crafts, sculpture, painting and graphic arts, even domestic and museum interiors - can tell us about social conditions, how visual culture has contributed to social values, and how concepts of high and low art have developed. The only work on visual culture to span American history from the early republic to the present and to delve into issues from ethnicity to geography, "Seeing High and Low" allows readers to follow the evolution of concepts of 'high' and 'low' art as well as to gain new insight into American history. Arranged roughly chronologically, these generously illustrated essays explore topics including the formative role of visual images in the process of class stratification in the Early Republic; the contribution of media images and paintings to debates on environmental crises, race relations, and urbanization in the late nineteenth century; and the difficulties of engaging with social issues while employing a modernist vocabulary.
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• Illustrations Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction (Giovanni Casadio and Patricia A. Johnston) I. Dionysus and Orpheus
• 2. Dionysus in Campania: Cumae (Giovanni Casadio)
• 3. The Meaning of bavkco" and bakceuvein in Orphism (Ana Jimenez San Cristobal)
• 4. New Contributions of Dionysiac Iconography to the History of Religions in Greece and Italy (Cornelia Isler-Kerenyi)
• 5. Who Are You? Mythic Narrative and Identity in the "Orphic" Gold Tablets (Radcliffe G. Edmonds)
• 6. Imago Inferorum Orphica (Alberto Bernabe)
• 7. Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Is: Eumolpus' Will, Pasta e Fagioli, and the Fate of the Soul in South Italian Thought from Pythagoras to Ennius (R. Drew Griffith) II. Demeter and Isis
• 8. Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia: The "Case" of San Nicola di Albanella (Giulia Sfameni Gasparro)
• 9. Landscape Synchesis: A Demeter Temple in Latium (Kathryn M. Lucchese)
• 10. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Vergil's "Appearance-of-a-Terrifying-Female-Apparition-in-the-Underworld" Motif in Aeneid 6 (Raymond J. Clark)
• 11. Women and Nymphs at the Grotta Caruso (Bonnie MacLachlan)
• 12. "Great Royal Spouse Who Protects Her Brother Osiris": Isis in the Isaeum at Pompeii (Frederick Brenk)
• 13. Aegyptiaca from Cumae: New Evidence for Isis Cult in Campania: Site and Materials (Paolo Caputo)
• 14. The Mystery Cults and Vergil's Georgics (Patricia A. Johnston) III. Mithras
• 15. The Amor and Psyche Relief in the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere: An Exceptional Case of Graeco-Roman Syncretism or an Ordinary Instance of Human Cognition? (Luther H. Martin)
• 16. The Mythraic Body: The Example of the Capua Mithraeum (Richard Gordon)
• 17. Why the Shoulder? A Study of the Placement of the Wound in the Mithraic Tauroctony (Glenn Palmer) Bibliography Index.
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In Vergil's "Aeneid", the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults in the ancient world, particularly those that flourished in Magna Graecia (essentially the area of present-day Southern Italy and Sicily). Implementing a variety of methodologies, the contributors to "Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia" examine an array of features associated with such 'mystery religions' that were concerned with individual salvation through initiation and hidden knowledge rather than civic cults directed toward Olympian deities usually associated with Greek religion. Contributors present contemporary theories of ancient religion, field reports from recent archaeological work, and other frameworks for exploring mystic cults in general and individual deities specifically, with observations about cultural interactions throughout. The topics include Dionysos and Orpheus, the Goddess Cults, Isis in Italy, and Roman Mithras, explored by an international array of scholars including Giulia Sfameni Gasparro ("Aspects of the Cult of Demeter in Magna Graecia") and Alberto Bernabe ("Imago Inferorum Orphica"). The resulting volume illuminates this often misunderstood range of religious phenomena.
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This volume brings together a variety of approaches to the different ways in which the role of animals was understood in ancient Greco-Roman myth and religion, across a period of several centuries, from Preclassical Greece to Late Antique Rome. Animals in Greco-Roman antiquity were thought to be intermediaries between men and gods, and they played a pivotal role in sacrificial rituals and divination, the foundations of pagan religion. The studies in the first part of the volume examine the role of the animals in sacrifice and divination. The second part explores the similarities between animals, on the one hand, and men and gods, on the other. Indeed, in antiquity, the behaviour of several animals was perceived to mirror human behaviour, while the selection of the various animals as sacrificial victims to specific deities often was determined on account of some peculiar habit that echoed a special attribute of the particular deity. The last part of this volume is devoted to the study of animal metamorphosis, and to this end a number of myths that associate various animals with transformation are examined from a variety of perspectives.
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A highly original and much-needed collection that explores the impact of Asian and Indian Ocean trade on the art and aesthetic sensibilities of New England port towns in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This diverse, interdisciplinary volume adds to our understanding of visual representations of economic and cultural changes in New England as the region emerged as a global trading center, entering the highly prized East Indies trades. Examining a wide variety of commodities and forms including ceramics, textiles, engravings, paintings, architecture, and gardens, the contributors highlight New Englanders' imperial ambitions in a wider world. This book will appeal to a broad audience of historians and students of American visual art, as well as scholars and students of fine and decorative arts.
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