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"Pompeii
and Herculaneum: Study Notes"
Paul
Artus
96 pp (80 full colour), Bellona Books, New Zealand,
2008 |
Available from HTANSW:
Standard
price $35.00 + postage (GST inclusive).
HTA NSW member price $30.00 + postage
(GST inclusive)
The
immediate appeal of this book will be visual. It has excellent
coloured images; many are better than those you may have
taken yourself at the sites. However its real value is
its approach to the ‘sources’. While the study
‘notes’ may not suit our syllabus, the process
of deconstructing images, illustrated throughout, will
be useful for students who are learning how to see, examine
and deconstruct visual sources.
There
are sections on the domus, the villa, mosaics and frescos
from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Inevitably there is more
material from Pompeii. One notable feature is its examination
of a number of well known houses; it locates equally well
known frecos, scuplture and mosaics in those houses. Used
in conjunction with Dr Penelope Allison’s work on
artifact assemblages this could be very illuminating for
your students.
Denis
Mootz
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