Jas Elsner

Jaś Elsner ( born December 19, 1962 in London ) is a British art historian who deals mainly with ancient art. Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago.

Life

After studying classical archeology and art history at Cambridge, Harvard and London Elsner in 1991 received his doctorate at King's College, Cambridge. Following a stint as a research fellow at Jesus College in Cambridge he had spent eight years teaching, first as a lecturer, then as Reader Art History of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 1999 he was appointed Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archaeology at Corpus Christi College. Since 2003 he is a regular Visiting Professor of the History of Art at the University of Chicago. In addition, Elsner is a member of the scientific advisory boards of various trade journals and co-editor of the book series Greek Culture in the Roman World, Cambridge University Press.

Elsner is married and has four children.

Research priorities

Elsner works for classical and late antique art of the Greeks and Romans as well as the reception of ancient art. He devotes particular attention to the views and the acts of looking and pointing in the ekphrasis and the forms of visualization in texts and works of art, most recently about the much-discussed Artemidorus Papyrus, but also in religion (in the context of the hard legation, Greek: theoria, as form of pilgrimage ) and the physiognomy. History of science itself Elsner also sets apart with predecessors such as Alois Riegl and Josef Strzygowski.

Writings

Monographs

  • Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (Princeton, Princeton UP ), 2007
  • Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450, Oxford: Oxford History of Art ( OUP ), 1998, ISBN 0-192-84201-3, Google Books
  • Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity, Cambridge, New York and Melbourne (CUP ), 1995
  • ( with Simon Coleman ): Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions, London ( British Museum Press) and Cambridge Mass. (Harvard University Press ), 1995

Editorial Boards

  • (Ed., with Kai Brodersen ): Images and Texts on the Artemidorus Papyrus: Working Papers on P. Artemid. (St John 's College, Oxford, 2008), Historia - Single writings Vol 214, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2009, ISBN 3-515-09426-1
  • (Ed. with C. Kraus, Helen Foley, Simon Goldhill ): Visualizing the Tragic, Oxford ( OUP ) 2007
  • (Ed., with Shadi Bartsch ): ekphrasis, special issue of Classical Philology 102 (2007)
  • (Ed., with Simon Swain, Stephen J. Harrison): Severan Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007 ( Festschrift for Ewen Bowie ), ISBN 978-0521859820, Google Books
  • (Ed., with Ian Rutherford ): Pilgrimage in Greco - Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods, Oxford ( Oxford University Press ), 2005, ISBN 0-199-25079-0, Google Books
  • (Ed.): Art and text in Roman culture, Cambridge: CUP, 1996, ISBN 0-521-43030-5, Google Books
  • (Ed., with Roger Cardinal ): The Cultures of Collecting, London ( Reaktion Books ), Cambridge Mass. (Harvard University Press) and Melbourne (Melbourne University Press ), 1994 Japanese translator's. Tokyo ( Kenkyusha ), 1998
  • (Ed., with Jamie Masters): Reflections of Nero. Culture, history and representation. London 1994, ISBN 0-7156-2479-2

Article

  • Physiognomics: Art and Text, in: Simon Swain (ed.), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity 's Polemon to Medieval Islam, Oxford ( OUP ) 2007, pp. 203-224
  • The Rhetoric of Buildings in the De Aedificiis of Procopius, in: E. James (ed.), Art and Text in Byzantium, Cambridge (CUP ), 2007, pp. 33-57
  • Philostratus Visualises the Tragic: Some Ekphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era, in: C. Kraus, H. Foley, S. Gold Hill and J. Elsner ( eds. ), Visualizing the Tragic, Oxford ( OUP ) 2007 pp. 309-337
  • Viewing Ariadne: From Ekphrasis to Wall Painting in the Roman World, in: Classical Philology 102 (2007) pp. 20-44
  • Classicism in Roman Art, in: James Porter ( ed.), Classical Pasts: The Classical Traditions of Greece and Rome (Princeton, Princeton UP), 2006, pp. 270-297
  • Perspectives in Art, in: Noel Lensky (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine, Cambridge (CUP ), 2006, 255-77, Google Books
  • Reflections on the ' Greek Revolution ': From Changes in viewing to the Transformation of Subjectivity, in: Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne ( eds. ): Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece, Cambridge, 2006, pp. 68-95
  • From Empirical Evidence to the Big Picture: Some Reflections on Riegl 's Concept of Kunstwollen, Critical Inquiry 32.4, Summer, 2006, pp. 741-766.
  • Art and Text, in: Stephen J. Harrison ( eds.), A Companion to Latin Literature, Oxford ( Blackwell ) 2005, pp. 300-318
  • Sacrifice and Narrative in the Arch of the argentarii in Rome, in: Journal of Roman Archaeology 18 (2005) pp. 83-98
  • Piety and Passion: Contest and Consensus in the Audiences for Early Christian Pilgrimage, in: J. Elsner and Ian Rutherford ( eds. ), Pilgrimage in Greco - Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods, Oxford ( Oxford University Press ), 2005, pp. 411-434
  • The Birth of Late Antiquity: Riegl and Strzygowski in 1901, in: Art History 25 (2002 ), pp. 358-379, pp. 419-420
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