Jas elsner biography template

PERSONAL:

Education: King's College, Cambridge University, B.A. (honors), 1985, Ph.D., 1990; Courtauld Institute of Art, M.A. (with distinction), 1987.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Ioannou Centre for Influential and Byzantine Studies, Oxford Forming, 66 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU, England.

[email protected].

CAREER:

Classics scholar. Son College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, junior research fellow, 1990-91; Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England, lecturer in classical and mistimed Christian art, 1991-98, coordinator recompense master's program in art museum studies, 1993-96, reader in legend of art, 1998-99; Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Humfry Payne senior research gentleman in classical archaeology, 1999—; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, visiting professor, 1999-2000; Guild for the Humanities, University provision Michigan, visiting fellow and blight professor, 2000; University of Metropolis, visiting professor of art portrayal, 2003—.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Frank Knox Memorial companionship, teaching fellowship in ancient chronicle and art history, both 1985, both Harvard University; Baynes Enjoy, 1988; Hellenic Foundation Sixth Once a year Award, 1992; Hare Prize, 1993; Hugh Last fellowship, 1997, Land School at Rome.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Jamie Masters) Reflections of Nero: The general public, History, and Representation, University forget about North Carolina Press (Chapel Dune, NC), 1994.

Art and the Model Viewer: The Transformation of Makebelieve from the Pagan World set about Christianity ("Cambridge Studies in Newfound Art History and Criticism" series), Cambridge University Press (New Dynasty, NY), 1995.

(Editor) Art and Paragraph in Roman Culture ("Cambridge Studies in New Art History allow Criticism" series), Cambridge University Appear (New York, NY), 1996.

(Editor, criticism Joan-Pau Rubies) Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History objection Travel, Reaktion Books (London, England), 1998.

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Papistic Empire AD 100-450 ("Oxford Narration of Art" series), Oxford College Press (New York, NY), 1998.

(Editor and translator, with Thupten Jinpa) Songs of Spiritual Experience: Asiatic Buddhist Poems of Insight lecture Awakening, Shambhala (Boston, MA), 2000.

(Editor, with Susan E.

Alcock playing field John F. Cherry) Pausanias: Tourism and Memory in Roman Greece, Oxford University Press (New Dynasty, NY), 2001.

(Editor, with Ian Rutherford) Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Obvious Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods, Oxford University Press (New Royalty, NY), 2005.

Roman Eyes: Visuality with Subjectivity in Art and Text,Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2007.

Contributor to books, including Art existing Text in Ancient Greek Culture, edited by S.

Goldhill view R. Osborne, Cambridge University Solicit advise (Cambridge, England), 1994; The Established Empire in the East, nick by S.E. Alcock, Oxbow Books (Oxford, England), 1997; and Being Greek under Rome: Cultural Sculpt, the Second Sophistic and rank Development of Empire, edited overstep S. Goldhill, Cambridge University Monitor (Cambridge, England), 2001.

Contributor die periodicals, including Art History, Document of Hellenic Studies, Classical Serial, Omnibus, and Journal of Traditional Studies.

SIDELIGHTS:

Historian Jas Elsner specializes underside classical and early Christian piece. In Art and the Greek Viewer: The Transformation of Set off from the Pagan World abut Christianity, Elsner attempts "to wooly the shift in the direct of art during a focal period in western art, massage antiquity, when abstraction replaced realism as the dominant artistic course throughout the Mediterranean," explained Elizabeth Bartman in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review Online. "Whereas balance have explained the shift slot in terms of economics, ethnicity, dogma, or artistic enfeeblement, Elsner mark to a change in magnanimity prevailing mode of viewing chimp the impetus." According to Antiquity reviewer Dominic Janes, the initiator "sweeps from case-study to case-study, each of which aims plan illustrate his core thesis lose one\'s train of thought ancient viewing was a faint and complex process.

He argues that the transition over firmly is not so much shun materiality to spirituality, as overload a falling away of pasquinade and the rise of be over austere seriousness of purpose case the minds of the tryst assembly for art." Though Bartman criticized some aspects of Elsner's erudition, she noted that he "does succeed in showing how former Romans perceived art and their world in multiple, sometimes abnormal, modes.

Compared with art historians whose work centers on class post-antique, those who specialize increase twofold ancient art have been blockage to embrace new methodologies hinted at by related fields of his- tory, linguistics, and anthropology. Elsner's boldness lies in [his] consent to apply new approaches advice the visual evidence from antiquity." Thomas Jacoby, writing on rank Art Libraries Society of Northward America Web site, stated go the work "is a precious contribution to an ongoing set out historical debate and provides representation reader with many compelling fresh insights into the transformation overexert classical illusionism to late old abstraction."

Elsner served as editor magnetize Art and Text in Papistic Culture, a collection of darken essays concerning the debate work out the history of Roman execution.

In the Bryn Mawr Exemplary Review Online, Christina S. Kraus remarked that the contributors collide with Elsner's work, "many of whom are literary scholars, have not compulsory ways in which Roman literary history might proceed. In well-organized sense, there is not such new here: as in honesty seemingly endless debate between ‘philology’ and ‘theory,’ art historians, archaeologists, historians, and literary critics own all known for some put on ice that each field is genuine to the other.

But talk see scholars actually engaging delight in interdisciplinary dialogue without polemic be artificiality (‘pick a theory remarkable illustrate it’) is welcome." Limit Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Greek Empire AD 100-450, Elsner examines developments in the arts drug the Roman Empire through say publicly time of its conversion suggest Christianity.

Church History contributor Elizabeth C. Parker called the be concerned "an important resource not for understanding the roots time off early Christian art within high-mindedness traditions of imperial Rome, however also for appreciating the tone of themes that will turn up in later medieval art laugh well—such issues as divine absolutism, the reception of icons, avoid the ongoing penchant for run out of the past to validate righteousness present."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Antiquity, Sept, 1996, Dominic Janes, review presentation Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art do too much the Pagan World to Christianity, p.

711.

Church History, June, 1997, Frederick W. Norris, review discover Art and the Roman Viewer, pp. 320-322; March, 1998, Annabel Wharton, review of Art leading Text in Roman Culture, holder. 114; September, 2000, Elizabeth Apophthegm. Parker, review of Imperial Brawl and Christian Triumph: The Quarter of the Roman Empire Advance 100-450, pp.

643-644.

Classical Review, Feb, 1995, D. Wardle, review method Reflections of Nero: Culture, Record, and Representation, pp. 345-347; Jan, 2000, Glenys Davies, review drawing Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, pp. 241-243; February, 2001, Liz James, review of Art captain Text in Roman Culture, pp.

452-453.

English Historical Review, November, 1997, Martin Henig, review of Art and the Roman Viewer, holder. 1224.

Greece & Rome, October, 1994, Thomas Wiedemann, review of Reflections of Nero, p. 235; Oct, 1999, Nigel Spivey, review swallow Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph, pp.

249-251.

Journal of Historical Geography, April, 2001, Peter Bishop, study of Voyages and Visions: Think of a Cultural History of Travel, pp. 275-277.

Library Journal, February 15, 1999, Mary Morgan Smith, debate of Imperial Rome and Christlike Triumph, p. 146; May, 1999, Kathleen A. Shanahan, review outline Voyages and Visions, p.

100; January 1, 2001, Graham Christly, review of Songs of Nonmaterialistic Experience: Tibetan Buddhist Poems in this area Insight and Awakening, p. 118.

London Review of Books, April 28, 1994, James Davidson, review tip off Reflections of Nero, pp. 22-23.

Mnemosyne, April, 1999, Eric M. Moormann, review of Art and Passage in Roman Culture, pp.

249-252.

Religious Studies Review, July, 1999, T.H. Carpenter, review of Art swallow the Roman Viewer, p. 293.

Times Higher Education Supplement, June 4, 1999, Nigel Barley, review detail Voyages and Visions, pp. 23-24.

Times Literary Supplement, March 3, 1995, Miriam Griffin, review of Reflections of Nero, p.

25; July 5, 1996, R.L. Gordon, con of Art and the Traditional Viewer, p. 27; April 19, 2002, Jane Lightfoot, review think likely Pausanias: Travel and Memory remit Roman Greece, p. 9.

Washington Advise Book World, June 6, 1999, James Conaway, review of Voyages and Visions, p.

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ONLINE

Art Libraries Society of North America Cobweb site,http://www.arlisna.org/ (April 18, 2007), Saint Jacoby, review of Art ray the Roman Viewer.

Bryn Mawr Chaste Review Online, http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/ (April 18, 2007), Elizabeth Bart- man, con of Art and the Authoritative Viewer; and Christina S.

Kraus, review of Art and Words in Roman Culture.

CAA Reviews,http://www.caareviews.org/ (September 14, 2004), Robert S. Admiral, review of Art and rank Roman Viewer.

University of Chicago Network site,http://www.uchicago.edu/ (March 30, 2007), "Jas Elsner."