Jas Elsner

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Jaś Elsner (born December 19, 1962 in London ) is a British art historian who mainly deals 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 antiquity and art history at Harvard University and the University of London , Elsner received his doctorate in 1991 from King's College , Cambridge. After working as a research fellow at Jesus College in Cambridge, he taught art history of ancient Greece and Rome for eight years, first as a lecturer and then as a reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. In 1999 he was named a Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art and Archeology at Corpus Christi College. Since 2003 he has been a regular Visiting Professor of the History of Art at the University of Chicago. Elsner is also a member of the scientific advisory boards of various specialist journals and co-editor of the academic book series Greek Culture in the Roman World at Cambridge University Press .

He has been an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009 and of the British Academy since 2017 . In May 2019 Jaś Elsner was appointed External Scientific Member of the Art History Institute in Florence of the Max Planck Society .

Elsner is married and has four children.

Research priorities

Elsner works on classical and late antique art of the Greeks and Romans as well as on the reception of antique art. He pays particular attention to the gaze and the acts of looking and showing in the ekphrasis and the forms of visualization in texts and works of art, most recently in the much-discussed Artemidor papyrus , but also in religion (as part of the festive embassy, ​​Greek: theoria , as Form of pilgrimage ) and physiognomy . In terms of the history of science, Elsner also deals with predecessors such as Alois Riegl and Josef Strzygowski .

Fonts

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 [1]
  • 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

Editorships

  • (Ed., With Kai Brodersen ): Images and Texts on the Artemidorus Papyrus: Working Papers on P. Artemid. (St John's College Oxford, 2008) , Historia - Einzelschriften Vol. 214, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2009, ISBN 3-515-09426-1
  • (Ed., With C. Kraus, Helene P. Foley , Simon Goldhill ): Visualizing the Tragic , Oxford (OUP) 2007
  • (Ed., With Shadi Bartsch ): Ekphrasis , special edition of Classical Philology 102 (2007)
  • (Eds., With Simon Swain, Stephen J. Harrison ): Severan Culture . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007 (Festschrift for Ewen Bowie ), ISBN 978-0521859820 , Google Books [2]
  • (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 [3]
  • (Ed., With Susan E. Alcock , John F. Cherry): Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece. New York 2001, Oxford University Press
  • (Ed.): Art and text in Roman culture , Cambridge: CUP, 1996, ISBN 0-521-43030-5 , Google Books [4]
  • (Ed., With Roger Cardinal): The Cultures of Collecting , London (reaction Books), Cambridge Mass. (Harvard University Press) and Melbourne (Melbourne University Press), 1994. Japanese transl .: Tokyo (Kenkyusha), 1998
  • (Ed., With Jamie Masters): Reflections of Nero. Culture, history and representation . London 1994, ISBN 0-7156-2479-2

items

  • Physiognomics: Art and Text , in: Simon Swain (ed.), Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul: Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity 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. Goldhill 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 [5]
  • 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 (ed.), 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 Archeology 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research. British Academy , July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Elsner, Jas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elsner, yes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH London