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Defining beauty : the body in ancient Greek art / Ian Jenkins with Celeste Farge and Victoria Turner.
Publisher: London : The British Museum, 2015Copyright date: 2015Description: 256 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780714122878
- 0714122874
- N 5635 .L66 J46 2015
Contents:
Summary: "Through word and image, this book explores the Greek portrayal of human character in art, along with sexual and social identity ... A series of lively introductory essays by leading scholars reveals aspects of how the Greeks themselves saw the human form both in life and art, following the reception of the reception of the Greek body into modern times. The book concludes with a reflection upon how the authentic Greek body came to be identified with the Parthenon sculptures, displacing all previous canons of Greek taste"--
Introduction / Neil MacGregor -- The human body in Greek art and thought / Ian Jenkins -- The life of ancient statues / Vinzenz Brinkmann -- The Greek body beautiful and the origins of European Romanticism / Matthew Bell -- The shock of the new : the reception of the Parthenon sculptures in nineteenth-century Europe / Athena S. Leoussi -- Encounters -- Body colour -- Men like gods -- Giving form to thought -- Rites of passage -- Love and desire -- Beauty and the beast -- Character and realism -- The Greek body goes east -- The shock of the new.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | N 5635 .L66 J46 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5191561 |
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| N 5630 .O83 1998 Archaic and classical Greek art / | N 5630 .P4 1998 Greek art and archaeology / | N 5630 .T176 2006 The invention of art history in Ancient Greece : religion, society and artistic rationalisation / | N 5635 .L66 J46 2015 Defining beauty : the body in ancient Greek art / | N 5750 .B67 1995 Etruscan art / | N 5760 .H36 1983 A handbook of Roman art : a survey of the visual arts of the Roman world / | N 5760 .S54 2007 Roman art / |
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the British Museum, 26 March-5 July 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-247) and index.
Introduction / Neil MacGregor -- The human body in Greek art and thought / Ian Jenkins -- The life of ancient statues / Vinzenz Brinkmann -- The Greek body beautiful and the origins of European Romanticism / Matthew Bell -- The shock of the new : the reception of the Parthenon sculptures in nineteenth-century Europe / Athena S. Leoussi -- Encounters -- Body colour -- Men like gods -- Giving form to thought -- Rites of passage -- Love and desire -- Beauty and the beast -- Character and realism -- The Greek body goes east -- The shock of the new.
"Through word and image, this book explores the Greek portrayal of human character in art, along with sexual and social identity ... A series of lively introductory essays by leading scholars reveals aspects of how the Greeks themselves saw the human form both in life and art, following the reception of the reception of the Greek body into modern times. The book concludes with a reflection upon how the authentic Greek body came to be identified with the Parthenon sculptures, displacing all previous canons of Greek taste"--
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