Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Name: Archaic and Classical Greek Art
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ISBN: 9780192842022

ISBN-10: 0192842021

ISBN-13: 9780192842022

Edition: 1998

Authors: Robin Osborne

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This fascinating new account of what happened in Greece from c.800 to 323 bc shows how sculptors and painters responded to the challenges they faced in the extremely formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state. The numerous symbols and images employed by their eastern Mediterranean neighbours on the one hand, and the explorations of what it was to be human embodied in the narratives with which Greek poets worked on the other, helped produce the rich diversity of forms apparent in Greek art. The drawings and sculptures of this period referred so intimately to the human form as to lead both ancient and modern theorists to talk in terms of the 'mimetic' role of art. The importance…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.45" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction



A History of Art Without Artists


The lost history of Greek art


The history of art at work


The status of art in classical Athens


Art and private life



From Praying to Playing: Art in the Eighth Century BC


Modelling horses


Modelling men


The figure as a decorative element


Stories and statements


Tensions



Reflections in an Eastern Mirror


A fabulous invasion


Heads, bodies, and gods



Myth as Measure


Myth and pathos: The Mykonos pithos


See myth and die: the Polyphemos amphora


Myth and ritual: the Hyperborean maidens


A revolution effected



Life Enlarged


The art of revelation


Revealing gods, reviewing men, offering women



Marketing an Image


Transforming a formula


The creation of the contemplative viewer


Colourful dramas outside Athens


Pot shapes



Enter Politics


Politics enters the sanctuary


Death, politics, and the gymnasium



Gay Abandon


Role-play and the body at the symposion


The invention of the red-figure technique


Bodies and flesh


Games with names


Virtuoso exhibits


The isolated image


Sex, drink, and the gods



Cult, Politics, and Imperialism


From dissent to totalitarianism


Sexuality and the standing male


The body of private imagery


Opening the body's story


Closing the body's story


The violence of representation



The Claims of the Dead


Grave offerings


Putting the dead body in its place


Art and the afterlife



Individuals Within and Without the City


Breaking the classical mould


Facing suffering


Life stories


Portraits and power



The Sensation of Art


Body language


The sensational artist



Looking. Backwards


The agenda of revolution


The power of the Greek image


List of Illustrations


Bibliographic Essay


Timeline


Index