Main entry:

Pollitt, J. J. (Jerome Jordan), 1934-

Title & Author:

Art in the Hellenistic age / J.J. Pollitt.

Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Description:

329 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.
Royal iconography -- Lysippos and his school -- Personality and psychology in portraiture -- The sculpture of Pergamon -- Hellenistic baroque -- Rococo, realism, and the exotic -- Rome as a center of Hellenistic art -- Style and retrospection : neoclassicism and archaism -- Pictorial illusion and narration -- Hellenistic mosaics -- Hellenistic architecture : theatrical and scholarly forms -- Alexandria and the Pharaoh.

Summary:

'The best reason to study Hellenistic art is for its own sake' writes Professor Pollitt in the Preface to Art in the Hellenistic Age. 'But', he continues, 'I would suggest that there is an additional quality that should make the art of the Hellenistic age of particular interest to modern audiences: the fact that in background and content it was the product of an age in many ways similar to our own ... The result of the historical conditions (of the age) was an art which, like much modern art, was heterogenous, often cosmopolitan, increasingly individualistic, and frequently elite in its appeal'. This book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period - i.e. from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, to the establishment of the Roman Empire at the end of the first century BC - which also explores ways in which that art is an expression of the cultural experience and aspirations of the Hellenistic age. -- Publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521257123
9780521257121
0521276721 (pbk.)
9780521276726 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Hellenistic.
Art, Roman.
Art, Greek.
Art, Greek History.
Art hellénistique.
Kunst.
Hellenisme.
Art, Greco-Roman.
Art grec.
Classical visual arts, B.C.300-B.C.30 - Critical studies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 85884
Call No.: ID:86-B16797
Status: Available