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The emergence of the classical style in Greek sculpture
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ISBN: 9780226570631 0226570630 9780226570655 0226570657 1282894757 9781282894754 9786612894756 Year: 2010 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders. Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. Neer traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato. Then, through meticulous accounts of major sculpture from around the Greek world, he shows how the demand for wonder-inducing statues gave rise to some of the greatest masterpieces of Greek art. Rewriting the history of Greek sculpture in Greek terms and restoring wonder to a sometimes dusty subject, The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the art of sculpture or the history of the ancient world.


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Art in the era of Alexander the Great : paradigms of Manhood and their cultural traditions
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ISBN: 9780521769044 0521769043 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"In this book, Ada Cohen focuses on art produced in Macedonia during the late Classical and early Hellenistic period, which coincides with the reigns of Philip II, his famous son Alexander the Great, and their immediate successors. Although inspired by traditional Greek themes and ideals, this body of artwork articulated specifically Macedonian aspirations. Cohen focuses on three key "masculine" themes - warfare, hunting, and abduction of women - exploring their visual and conceptual interconnections. She demonstrates their preoccupation with the visual celebration of violence and studies the analogies they draw among the ideological categories of "enemy," "animal," and "woman." Simultaneously historical and thematic, Cohen's text is structured around select paintings and mosaics from northern Greek sites, such as Pella and Vergina, and from both secular and funerary contexts. She also examines monuments from other ancient contexts and in other media to illuminate specific questions of style, theme, and meaning"--Provided by publisher. "Simultaneously historical and thematic, this book studies an important period in Greek art, the late Classical and earely Hellenistic, especially the reigns of Philip II, his famous son Alexander the Great, and their successors. It focuses on the three traditionally "masculine" themes of warfare, hunting, and the abduction of women. All three show a preoccupation with the pictorial celebration of violence and draw analogies among the ideological categories "enemy," "animal," and "women." The book explores the ways in which masculine and feminine identities were usually constructed and communicated"--Provided by publisher.


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Das originale der Kopie : Kopien als Produkte und Medien der Transformation von Antike
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ISBN: 9783110225440 3110225441 9783110225457 311022545X 9786612706592 1282706594 Year: 2010 Volume: 17 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter Verlag

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Probleme der Kopien antiker Kunst in nachantiken Epochen werden in diesem Band in Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte im Einzelfall und am Einzelbeispiel besprochen. Begriffe wie Adaption, Anverwandlung, Imitation, Kopie, Nachahmung, Nachbildung oder Reproduktion bevölkern die Literatur in ebenso großer Vielfalt wie die Objekte, auf die sie angewendet werden, die Museen und Sammlungen der Welt seit der Frühen Neuzeit. Über das Phänomen neuzeitlicher Kopien hinausgehend werden damit verbundene Themen wie Ergänzung und Rekonstruktion oder aber das Problem des Fragments in den Blick genommen. Im Gegensatz zur Vorstellung der Antikenkopie als fester Größe, die es am antiken Original zu überprüfen gilt, werden die Transformationsprozesse im Vorgang des Kopierens betont.


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Essays on art and archaeology
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ISBN: 0511705867 110801741X Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Charles Thomas Newton (1816-1894) was a British archaeologist specialising in Greek and Roman artefacts. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford before joining the British Museum as an assistant in the Antiquities Department. Newton left the Museum in 1852 to explore the coasts and islands of Asia Minor. In 1856 he discovered the remains of the Mausoleum of Helicarnassus, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. He was appointed Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities in 1860 and remained in the position until 1880. First published in 1880, this volume is a compilation of lectures on archaeology and classical art which he delivered over the course of his career. They are arranged chronologically and cover topics as diverse as the study of archaeology, Greek sculptures and the arrangement of antiquities in the British Museum, providing valuable information on early methods of archaeology and the study of classical art.


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Intentional history : spinning time in Ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9783515096836 3515096833 Year: 2010 Publisher: Stuttgart Franz Steiner

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