By Sir L. Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. - Girdle of a bronze statue, the Capitol, Rome.

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Statue

The Sinophone as Lyrical Aesthetics Redefined

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chow Teck Seng
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Bronze Statue ◽  
Sinophone Studies ◽  
Singapore Chinese ◽  
Historical Resources ◽  
City State ◽  
National Languages ◽  
The City

This chapter attempts to demonstrate how Sinophone studies, Sinoscripts and lyrical aesthetics can help interpret contemporary Singapore Chinese poetry. Three interconnected case studies are used to highlight how various virtual ‘spaces’ of the city state are actualized as poetics. They include Liang Yue’s ‘To the Bronze Statue of Raffles’, which highlights how poetics is created with multicultural historical resources that are utilized as cultural symbols; ‘LOST’ by Xi Ni Er, in which different written scripts, modernist and post-modernist rhetoric, and visual meta-poetics are used; and Chow Teck Seng’s ‘We Speak to Fish using National Languages’, an ekphrasis which sees dialogues between languages, media and art forms, and layered historical contexts. These various poetic spaces complete the poems, giving them second lives through unlimited reincarnations.

scholarly journals The Bronze Statue from Cerigotto

1903 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 152-156
Author(s):  
E. A. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
North Coast ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
General Effect ◽  
The North ◽  
Bronze Statue ◽  
Open Meeting

In February, 1901, M. Kabbadias very courteously sent to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, of which he is an honorary member, some photographs and a brief description of the remarkable series of bronze and marble statues found in the sea off the north coast of Cerigotto. In view of the great interest that had been excited by this discovery, M. Kabbadias' communications were at once laid before the Society at an open meeting, and were also published in this Journal. But the fragmentary state of the figures and the corrosion of their surface prevented the possibility of any final judgment as to their general effect or the details of their modelling. If this was the feeling even of those who had seen the originals, it was far more so with those who could only judge from somewhat unsatisfactory photographs of them; and such opinions on them as were expressed at the time would be admitted by the authors to be subject to revision in the light of a more complete and careful study. A certain amount of misunderstanding was due to the general interest taken in the discovery, and the consequent demand for some authoritative and generally intelligible information about it; for example, the claim put forward by M. Kabbadias for the Cerigotto statue ‘to rank as high among statues of bronze as does the Hermes of Praxiteles among those of marble’ probably led to its comparison with that masterpiece, to which its resemblance is only superficial.

scholarly journals X. Account of the traces of a Roman Villa discovered, A. D. 1840, at Gayton, near Northampton, communicated in a Letter from the Very Reverend George Butler, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1844 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 125-131
Author(s):  
George Butler
Keyword(s):  
Southern Boundary ◽  
Roman Villa ◽  
Roman Coins ◽  
Bronze Statue

In a field, called “the Warren,” (part of the property of Sir Joseph Hawley, Bart, of Leybourne Grange, in the co. of Kent,) situated at the southern boundary of the parish of Gayton, and bordering upon the parish of Blisworth, the plough had oft-times been impeded by large stones, evidencing the traces of some old building. In the month of February 1840, the occupier of the field, desirous of removing this obstacle to his agriculture, and wanting stones for the under-draining of the land in various parts of his farm, employed labourers to dig up a portion of these foundations. During the progress of the work were discovered sundry Roman coins, a silver fibula, many fragments of Roman tiles and pottery, (some of the latter plain, some tastefully figured,) and a small bronze statue of Cupid in a dancing attitude, formerly (as it should seem) holding a wreath, suspended between his two hands, as supplied in the annexed sketch.

The Battle of Representations

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongho Chun
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Deep Root ◽  
Bronze Statue ◽  
A Site

Opposite the Japanese embassy in downtown Seoul stands a bronze statue of a young girl. Since its erection in 2011, it has become a site of fierce symbolic battles among various parties. The objectives of this article are threefold. First, it offers an art historical account of the monument. Although it has been widely covered by numerous media, few serious studies on the monument as a work of art have been undertaken, and this article seeks to fill the gap. Second, it aims to advance an interpretation of the statue as a paradigmatic embodiment of intersubjective gaze that unsettles conventional portrayals of comfort women as erotic prostitutes. The image of comfort women as highly sexualized bodies has taken deep root in postwar Japanese popular culture, but the statue challenges this stereotyping and presents instead the pristine image of comfort women as innocent teenage victims of ruthless Japanese militarism. Third, it revisits the obvious: the statue in essence is a representation, but the representation itself is in turmoil. As people summon their own collection of desires when gazing at the statue, their encounters with it constantly question its representational stability.

Leaving Lenin: Elites, official ideology and monuments in the Kyrgyz Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally N. Cummings
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Official Ideology ◽  
Bronze Statue ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regional Authorities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Former Soviet Republics

Many Lenin monuments remain in cities around the former Soviet republics and a few national or regional authorities have decreed it against the law to deface or remove them. The Lenin monument in Bishkek, capital city of the Kyrgyz Republic, is an example of both policies. On two main counts, however, the fate of this particular bronze statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin has been unusual. Only in the Kyrgyz case was the country's central Lenin monument left untouched for over a decade after the collapse of communism, a decree for its preservation as a national treasure being put in force as late as 2000. And, when, in 2003, the government after all decided to remove the monument, it was then relocated only some 100 yards from its original location. These twin issues of timing and new spatial framing offer a window on the relationship between state ideology and politics in the Kyrgyz Republic. I propose to use an official ideology approach to understand the Kyrgyz ruling elite's ideological relationship to the Lenin monument after the collapse of communism.

Further Evidence regarding the Bronze Athena at Byzantium

1951 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 72-74
Author(s):  
R. J. H. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Bronze Statue

Professor Wace's brilliant services to archaeology have been diffused over so wide a field that it is not difficult to cite some notable work of his in connexion with almost anything that one may oneself offer to his Festschrift. As I wish to write of a famous fifth-century bronze statue, I may gratefully remember his illuminating article on the Chatsworth head, printed in JHS LVIII (1938), 90–95.

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