Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece write by Jeffrey M. Hurwit. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Greeks inscribed their works of art and craft with labels identifying mythological or historical figures, bits of poetry, and claims of ownership. But no type of inscription is more hotly debated or more intriguing than the artist's signature, which raises questions concerning the role and status of the artist and the work of art or craft itself. In this book, Jeffrey M. Hurwit surveys the phenomenon of artists' signatures across the many genres of Greek art from the eighth to the first century BCE. Although the great majority of extant works lack signatures, the Greek artist nonetheless signed his products far more than any other artist of antiquity. Examining signatures on gems, coins, mosaics, wall-paintings, metalwork, vases, and sculptures, Hurwit argues that signatures help us assess the position of the Greek artist within his society as well as his conception of his own skill and originality.
Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece
Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece write by Kristen Seaman. This book was released on 2017-06-09. Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece questions many long-held ideas and provides a deeper understanding of particular artists and architects.
Homer and the Artists
Homer and the Artists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homer and the Artists write by Anthony Snodgrass. This book was released on 1998-10-22. Homer and the Artists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a book about Homer, myth and art. The Iliad and Odyssey so dominate our view of ancient Greece that our natural reaction on viewing certain works of early Greek art is to identify them as 'scenes from Homer'. However, Anthony Snodgrass argues that, so far from 'illustrating' the Homeric poems, these works very rarely show signs of acquaintance with the Iliad or Odyssey, seldom even choosing their subject-matter from them. When the subjects do overlap, the artists occasionally give positive signs of preferring a non-Homeric version of the episode. He then attempts to explain why this should be so: despite Homer's unique standing in antiquity, the artists inhabited an independent world, where their own inspirations and concerns dominated their production. It is only the traditional dominance of the literary study of antiquity which has hidden this from us.
The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece
The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece write by Guy Hedreen. This book was released on 2016. The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.
Art and Experience in Classical Greece
Art and Experience in Classical Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Experience in Classical Greece write by Jerome Jordan Pollitt. This book was released on 1972-03-10. Art and Experience in Classical Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "delightful, readable, and scholarly. The volume is profusely and well illustrated, each art example is clearly labelled and dated, and superb supplementary references for illustrations and supplementary suggestions for further reading are added to complete the study." Choice
