Art as a manifestation of Power in Imperial Rome: the Trajan Propagation in the Monuments
Art is usually considered as a subjective and aesthetic expression of an artist whose implications are a double movement. On the one hand, the work manifests the subjectivity of the one who has executed it; but also on the other, it implies the aesthetic delight of those who observe it.However, art...
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Asociación de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre Europa (ADEISE)
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs3/index.php/europa/article/view/3968 |
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| Sumario: | Art is usually considered as a subjective and aesthetic expression of an artist whose implications are a double movement. On the one hand, the work manifests the subjectivity of the one who has executed it; but also on the other, it implies the aesthetic delight of those who observe it.However, art also transmits ideas, messages, symbols, intentions, which have a high social impact; therefore the aesthetic work becomes another way of communication. In this way, the authority can use art as a propagandistic element, as a discursive resource, to install an idea that arises from the ruler (sender) to those who are governed (receiver).The intention of the present work is to analyze the imperial propaganda of Rome in the second century of our era, specifically in the figure the Emperor Trajan by means of the monuments erected in his honor. |
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