Understanding Greek sculpture : ancient meanings, modern readings / Nigel Spivey.

Main entry:

Spivey, Nigel Jonathan.

Title & Author:

Understanding Greek sculpture : ancient meanings, modern readings / Nigel Spivey.

Publication:

New York : Thames and Hudson, 1996.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-236) and index.
The Greek revolution -- Daedalus and the wings of techne -- Sacred decoration -- Heroes apparent -- From Marathon to the Parthenon -- In search of Pheidias -- Revealing Aphrodite -- The patronage of kings -- Graecia Capta.

Summary:

Many pieces of Greek sculpture are very familiar to us - the Discobolus, the Venus de Milo and the Parthenon frieze, for instance - but our appreciation of them as "works of art," enshrined in museums, is far removed from the ways in which the ancient Greeks saw and perceived them. To comprehend why Greek sculpture looks as it does we have to recreate the conditions of its production and consider those who commissioned, used and viewed it as much as the sculptors whom we traditionally associate with its creation. In a stimulating new approach to the subject, Understanding Greek Sculpture re-examines the contexts in which Classical statuary was made and displayed. In its original intended setting, Greek sculpture not only looked quite different - massed together or elevated on pediments and friezes, and brightly painted - but it also served social, religious and political purposes that might surprise us.
Drawing on literary, historical and archaeological evidence, Nigel Spivey explains the techniques of the manufacture of Greek sculpture and traces its production from the eighth century BC to the Hellenistic period. In an eloquent text illustrated throughout with diverse examples, he explores the effects on sculpture of the demands of votive religion, the culture of heroes and the faith in deities in human form. He also looks at the causes of the "Greek Revolution" when sculptors discovered how to portray the human body naturalistically.

ISBN:

0500237107
9780500237106
0500278768
9780500278765

Subject:

Phidias, (0490?-0431 av. J.-C.)
Sculpture, Greek.
Sculpture, Classical Appreciation Greece.
Art and religion Greece.
Sculpture, Greek Political aspects.
Sculpture, Greek History.
Yunan heykeli Tarih.
Klasik heykel Değerlendirme Yunanistan.
Sanat ve din Yunanistan.
Yunan heykeli Siyasi açıdan.
Sculpture grecque Histoire.
Sculpture antique Appréciation Grèce.
Art et religion Grèce.
Sculpture grecque Aspect politique.
Sculpture grecque.
Antiquities
Art and religion
Sculpture, Classical Appreciation
Plastische kunst.
Escultura grega.
Greece Antiquities.
Yunanistan Eski eserler.
Grèce Antiquités.
Greece

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 107858
Call No.: ID NB90.S69; ID:96-B1160
Status: Available

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