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Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. analyzes the broad character of art produced during this period, providing in-depth analysis of and commentary on many of its most notable examples of sculpture and painting. Taking into consideration developments in style and subject matter, and elucidating political, religious, and intellectual context, William A. P. Childs argues that Greek art in this era was a natural outgrowth of the high classical period and focused on developing the rudiments of individual expression that became the hallmark of the classical in the fifth century.As Childs shows, in many respects the art of this period corresponds with the philosophical inquiry by Plato and his contemporaries into the nature of art and speaks to the contemporaneous sense of insecurity and renewed religious devotion. Delving into formal and iconographic developments in sculpture and painting, Childs examines how the sensitive, expressive quality of these works seamlessly links the classical and Hellenistic periods, with no appreciable rupture in the continuous exploration of the human condition. Another overarching theme concerns the nature of "style as a concept of expression," an issue that becomes more important given the increasingly multiple styles and functions of fourth-century Greek art. Childs also shows how the color and form of works suggested the unseen and revealed the profound character of individuals and the physical world.

Aesthetics, Ancient. --- Art and philosophy --- Art, Greek --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- History. --- History. --- Acropolis Museum. --- Acropolis of Athens. --- Aegean civilizations. --- Alexander Mosaic. --- Alexander of Macedon. --- Ancient Agora of Athens. --- Ancient Greece. --- Ancient Greek art. --- Ancient Greek sculpture. --- Ancient Greek temple. --- Ancient Roman architecture. --- Ancient art. --- Apoxyomenos. --- Archaic Greece. --- Aristotle. --- Athena Alea. --- Athena Parthenos. --- Between Scylla and Charybdis. --- Caryatid. --- Charites. --- Chlamys. --- Classical Athens. --- Classical Greece. --- Classical antiquity. --- Classical architecture. --- Classical sculpture. --- Corinthian War. --- Corinthian order. --- Culture of Greece. --- Delphi. --- Demosthenes. --- Discobolus. --- Doryphoros. --- Drapery. --- Eleusinian Mysteries. --- Eleusis. --- Epidaurus. --- Epigram. --- Erechtheion. --- Euphranor. --- Euripides. --- Fifth-century Athens. --- Greek Anthology. --- Greek Architecture. --- Greek World. --- Greek art. --- Greek democracy. --- Greek literature. --- Greek mythology. --- Greek tragedy. --- Greeks. --- Hellenistic art. --- Hellenistic period. --- Herodas. --- Herodes Atticus. --- Hippocampus (mythology). --- Hippomenes. --- Hydria. --- Iconography. --- Ionic order. --- Isocrates. --- Kantharos. --- Kerameikos. --- Lekythos. --- Lysippos. --- Metope. --- Neo-Attic. --- Nicias (Indo-Greek king). --- Nikephoros (Caesar). --- Niobids. --- Parian marble. --- Parthenos (mythology). --- Patroklos (Attica). --- Pediment. --- Peloponnese. --- Peloponnesian War. --- Phidias. --- Polykleitos. --- Pottery. --- Praxiteles. --- Resting Satyr. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman Greece. --- Roman sculpture. --- Sculpture. --- Sisyphus. --- Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. --- Sophocles. --- Statue. --- Stele. --- Stoa of Zeus. --- Temple of Apollo Sosianus. --- Temple of Artemis. --- Terracotta. --- The Persians. --- The Philosopher. --- Thebes, Greece. --- Third Sacred War. --- Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles. --- Women in Classical Athens.