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Author: Marina Belozerskaya
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Greeks were one of the most important influences on the course of Western civilization. This book traces their lasting contributions in the visual arts, and places them in their historical and cultural context.
Author: Jeremy Tanner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-23
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0521846145
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The ancient Greeks developed their own very specific ethos of art appreciation, advocating a rational involvement with art. This book explores why the ancient Greeks started to write art history and how the writing of art history transformed the social functions of art in the Greek world. It looks at the invention of the genre of portraiture, and the social uses to which portraits were put in the city state. Later chapters explore how artists sought to enhance their status by writing theoretical treatises and producing works of art intended for purely aesthetic contemplation which ultimately gave rise to the writing of art history and to the development of art collecting. The study, which is illustrated throughout and which draws on contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art, will prompt the student of classical art to rethink fundamental assumptions on Greek art and its cultural and social implications."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1972-03-10
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521096621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"delightful, readable, and scholarly. The volume is profusely and well illustrated, each art example is clearly labelled and dated, and superb supplementary references for illustrations and supplementary suggestions for further reading are added to complete the study." Choice
Author: Andrew Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-10-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521853214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddresses the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art, its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact.
Author: Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780801494017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handsomely illustrated book offers a broad synthesis of Archaic Greek culture. Unlike other books dealing with the art and architecture of the Archaic period, it places these subjects in their historical, social, literary, and intellectual contexts. Origins and originality constitute a central theme, for during this period representational and narrative art, monumental sculpture and architecture, epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry, the city-state (polis), tyranny and early democracy, and natural philosophy were all born.
Author: Donna Kurtz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-09-16
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0521237262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the subjects and problems in the art of Archaic and Classical Athens.
Author: Karl Schefold
Publisher: New York : Greystone Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines Greek achievements in architecture, sculpture, vase-painting, and the like during the period from 500 to 325 B.C.
Author: Mary Louise Hart
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1606060376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author: Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781909400030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today.
Author: Judith M. Barringer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-09
Total Pages: 821
ISBN-13: 1139991744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. Suitable for students with no prior knowledge of ancient art, this textbook reviews the main objects and monuments of the ancient Greek world, emphasizing the context and function of these artefacts in their particular place and time. Students are led to a rich understanding of how objects were meant to be perceived, what 'messages' they transmitted and how the surrounding environment shaped their meaning. The book contains nearly five hundred illustrations (with over four hundred in colour), including specially commissioned photographs, maps, floorplans and reconstructions. Judith M. Barringer examines a variety of media, including marble and bronze sculpture, public and domestic architecture, painted vases, coins, mosaics, terracotta figurines, reliefs, jewellery and wall paintings. Numerous text boxes, chapter summaries and timelines, complemented by a detailed glossary, support student learning.
