Author: Benjamin Rowland
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard U.P
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →No detailed description available for "The Classical Tradition in Western Art".
Author: Michael Silk
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 542
ISBN-13: 1405155507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white images
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-10-25
Total Pages: 1188
ISBN-13: 9780674035720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.
Author: Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gilbert Highet
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1949-12-31
Total Pages: 802
ISBN-13: 0198020066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949.
Author: Pierce Rice
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780393730562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pierce Rice surveys the role of the human figure in public art.
Author: Richard Warren
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1474298575
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how in expressing many of their most essential concerns – sexuality, death and the nature of art – its artists drew heavily upon classical literature and the iconography of classical art. It challenges the conventional view that Art Nouveau's adherents turned their backs on Classicism in their quest for new forms. Across Europe and North America, artists continued to turn back to the ancient world, and in particular to Greece, for the vitality with which they sought to infuse their creations. The works of many well-known artists are considered through this prism, including those of Gustav Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley and Louis Comfort Tiffany. But, breaking new ground in its comparative approach, this study also considers some of the movement's less well-known painters, sculptors, jewellers and architects, including in central and eastern Europe, and their use of classical iconography to express new ideas of nationhood. Across the world, while Art Nouveau was a plural style drawing on multiple influences, the Classics remained a key artistic vocabulary for its artists, whether blended with Orientalist and other iconographies, or preserving the purity of classical form.
Author: Caroline Vout
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1400890276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean.