Images in mind
statues in archaic and classical Greek literature and thought
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Author
Publication
2001 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
90,000 words, Guess
Page Count
360 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780691044316
- ISBN-100691044317
- Goodreads4340430
- Library of Congress Control Number00057463
- OCLC Control Number44573398
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780691044316
- Open LibraryOL6792426M
Classifications
- DDC880.9/357
- LCCPA3015.S82 S74 2001
- LCCPA3015.S82S74 2001
Description
"In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice "good to think with."". "By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social - rather than purely aesthetic - study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists."--BOOK JACKET.
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