Myth Into Art - 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 Myth Into Art write by H. A. Shapiro. This book was released on 2002-11. Myth Into Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Myth into Art is a comparative study of mythological narrative in Greek poetry and the visual arts. Thirty of the major myths are surveyed, focusing on Homer, lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. On the artistic side, the emphasis is on Athenian and South Italian vases. The book offers undergraduate students an introduction both to mythology and to the use of visual sources in the study of Greek myth.
Flying Too Close to the Sun
Flying Too Close to the Sun - 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 Flying Too Close to the Sun write by Diane Fortenberry. This book was released on 2018-05-11. Flying Too Close to the Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 years From the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, Classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source of cultural inspiration. The struggles of heroes, both triumphant and tragic, with gods, monsters, and fate, exert a particular grip on our imagination. Visual artists have long expressed and reworked these foundational stories. This is the first book to unite myth-inspired artworks by ancient, modern, and contemporary artists, from Botticelli and Caravaggio to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist
Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist - 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 Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist write by Ernst Kris. This book was released on 1979-01-01. Legend, Myth, and Magic in the Image of the Artist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This is the first English translation of a brief, scholarly, and brilliantly original work which sets out to examine the links between the legend of the artist, in all cultures, and what E.H. Gombrich, in an introductory essay, calls 'certain invariant traits of the human psyche.'"--Denis Thomas, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts "This book gathers together various legends and attitudes about artists, ancient and modern, East and West, and gives fascinating insights into attitudes toward artistic creation. It impinges on psychology, art history and history, aesthetics, biography, myth and magic, and will be of great interest to a wide audience in many fields.... A delightful and unrivalled study."--Howard Hibbard "Thought provoking and valuable.... To all those interested in psychiatry and art from the perspectives of history, criticism, or therapy and to the wide audience concerned with the psychology of aesthetics and of artistic creation."--Albert Rothenberg, American Journal of Psychiatry
ART MYTH AND RITUAL P
ART MYTH AND RITUAL P - 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 MYTH AND RITUAL P write by Kwang-chih CHANG. This book was released on 2009-06-30. ART MYTH AND RITUAL P available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.
Image and Myth
Image and Myth - 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 Image and Myth write by Luca Giuliani. This book was released on 2013-09-11. Image and Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece—but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients. Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. He reveals that developments in Greek vase painting were driven as much by the times as they were by tradition—the better-known the story, the less leeway the artists had in interpreting it. As literary culture transformed from an oral tradition, in which stories were always in flux, to the stability of written texts, the images produced by artists eventually became nothing more than illustrations of canonical works. At once a work of cultural and art history, Image and Myth builds a new way of understanding the visual culture of ancient Greece.
