Author: GOLDHILL, SIMON & ROBIN OSBORNE (EDS.)
Title: Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521411858. Very faint shelfwear else book and DJ are fine. ; Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism; 355 pages; These specially commissioned essays offer a radical and fresh appraisal of how ancient Greek art was looked at, written about and discussed in antiquity. The first section focuses on fifth-century culture, examining painted pottery, architecture and sculpture, and theatrical uses of set-piece descriptions. The second section turns to Hellenistic culture and literary artists' self-conscious exploration of new conditions of viewing and writing about viewing in epigrams, books on travel, and accounts of imaginary museums.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0521411858 Art And Architecture Sculpture Greek Literature Social & Cultural Classical Greek & Roman Hellenistic Kingdoms Poetry & Poets


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