Art and Experience in Classical Greece

Art and Experience in Classical Greece
Author: Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1972-03-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521096621

"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

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780892366958

They reflected - and projected - essential cultural values, whether they were intended for religious sanctuaries for aristocratic drinking parties, civic squares or tombs."--BOOK JACKET.

The Art of Classical Greece

The Art of Classical Greece
Author: Karl Schefold
Publisher: New York : Greystone Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1966
Genre: Art, Greek
ISBN:

Examines Greek achievements in architecture, sculpture, vase-painting, and the like during the period from 500 to 325 B.C.

The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.

The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 B.C.
Author: Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1985
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801494017

This 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.

The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece

The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece
Author: Dimitris Plantzos
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9786185209209

Covers painting in Bronze-Age Greece; painting of the Archaic, the Classical, and the Hellenistic periods, and ends with a study of Graeco-Roman painting in the 2nd-3rd c. AD. Looks at techniques, style and themes in multidisciplinary approach to the material record. Extensive bibliography. English language text. 334 col. illus.

Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art
Author: Andrew Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521853214

Addresses the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art, its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact.

Art of Ancient Greece

Art of Ancient Greece
Author: Claude Laisne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Greece
ISBN: 9782879390116

Temples with perfect, elegant proportions and sculptures conforming to the ideal of beauty are the typical images we have of ancient Greek art. This text emphasizes the more primative beginnings of ancient Greek art.

Defining Beauty

Defining Beauty
Author: Ian Dennis Jenkins
Publisher: British museum Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Greek sculpture is full of breathing vitality and yet, at the same time, it reaches beyond mere imitation of nature to give form to thought in works of timeless beauty. For over 2000 years the Greeks experimented with representing the human body in works that range from prehistoric abstract simplicity to the full-blown realism of the age of Alexander the Great. The ancient Greeks invented the modern idea of the human body in art as an object of sensory delight and as a bearer of meaning. Their vision has had a profound influence on the way the western world sees itself. Drawing on the British Museum's outstanding collection of Greek sculpture - including extraordinary pieces from the Parthenon and the celebrated representation of a discus thrower - and through a number of themed sections, this richly illustrated book explores the Greek portrayal of human character in sculpture, along with sexual and social identity. In athletics, the male body was displayed as if it was a living sculpture, and victors were commemorated by actual statues. In art, not only were mortal men and women represented in human form but also the gods and other beings of myth and the supernatural world. In a series of lively introductory chapters, written by a selection of academics, historians and artists, it is revealed how the Greeks themselves viewed the sculpture (which was vividly enhanced with colour), and how it was regarded and treated in later pagan antiquity. The revival of the Greek body in the modern era is also discussed, including the shock of the new effect of the arrival of the Parthenon sculptures in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Eye and Art in Ancient Greece

Eye and Art in Ancient Greece
Author: Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe
Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Aesthetics, Greek (Modern)
ISBN: 9781909400030

Eye 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.

The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece

The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece
Author: Jeremy Tanner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2006-03-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521846145

"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.