Marjorie S. Venit Memorial Lecture: Verity Platt, "From Seal-stones to Photography: a Prehistory of the Impression”
Marjorie S. Venit Memorial Lecture: Verity Platt, "From Seal-stones to Photography: a Prehistory of the Impression”
The Venit Memorial Lecture honors the late Professor Emerita Marjorie Venit and will take place on Friday, November 21st, beginning with a Tea at 5 pm in the Atrium of the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building.
Following the Tea, Professor Verity Platt will present a talk entitled "From Seal-stones to Photography: a Prehistory of the Impression” in Room 2203 (Lecture Hall) at 6 pm. The focus of her talk will be related to her new book, coming out later this year, Epistemic Impressions: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text. This manuscript "explores how Greek authors drew on ancient models of sense-perception when formulating relationships between texts and objects, with a focus on Hellenistic epigram. Drawing on theories of media and moving beyond the concepts of description (ekphrasis) and imitation (mimesis), which have dominated so much scholarship on the text-image relationship in antiquity, it focuses on the language of the impression (typos), addressing the verbal and conceptual strategies that authors such as Posidippus employed when dealing with the materiality of artifacts and modes of cultural transmission."
Verity Platt is Professor of Greek and Roman art history in Cornell University's Department of Classics. Her wide-ranging interests focus on ancient theories of the image; media and intermediality; the historiography of ancient art (especially the author Pliny the Elder); art, nature, and ecology; the material and visual culture of religion; Roman wall-painting and funerary art; Greco-Roman seal-stones; Hellenistic poetry (especially epigram); and Greek literature under the Roman Empire. She is co-director of the Cornell Cast Collection and is director of Cornell University's Humanities Scholars Program.
The Venit Memorial Lecture honors the late Professor Emerita Marjorie Venit and will take place on Friday, November 21st, beginning with a Tea at 5 pm in the Atrium of the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building.
Following the Tea, Professor Verity Platt will present a talk entitled "From Seal-stones to Photography: a Prehistory of the Impression” in Room 2203 (Lecture Hall) at 6 pm. The focus of her talk will be related to her new book, coming out later this year, Epistemic Impressions: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text. This manuscript "explores how Greek authors drew on ancient models of sense-perception when formulating relationships between texts and objects, with a focus on Hellenistic epigram. Drawing on theories of media and moving beyond the concepts of description (ekphrasis) and imitation (mimesis), which have dominated so much scholarship on the text-image relationship in antiquity, it focuses on the language of the impression (typos), addressing the verbal and conceptual strategies that authors such as Posidippus employed when dealing with the materiality of artifacts and modes of cultural transmission."
Verity Platt is Professor of Greek and Roman art history in Cornell University's Department of Classics. Her wide-ranging interests focus on ancient theories of the image; media and intermediality; the historiography of ancient art (especially the author Pliny the Elder); art, nature, and ecology; the material and visual culture of religion; Roman wall-painting and funerary art; Greco-Roman seal-stones; Hellenistic poetry (especially epigram); and Greek literature under the Roman Empire. She is co-director of the Cornell Cast Collection and is director of Cornell University's Humanities Scholars Program.