Andrew Stewart (Berkeley University of California)

Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What were the contexts, aims, achievements, and impact of the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art? Andrew Stewart introduces students to these questions, examining Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 180mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521618359
• ISBN-10: 0521618355
• Artikelnr.: 23602644

Autorenporträt

Andrew Stewart is Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. A scholar of Greek art and archaeology, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Getty Foundations and the ACLS and is a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. He is the author of Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece and most recently, Attalos Athens and the Akropolis: The Pergamene 'Little Barbarians' and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Archaic into classical: the Greek revolution
2. The first generation
3. The classical moment
4. Interlude: city, household, and individual in classical Greece
5. The great convulsion
6. The fourth century: an age of the individual?
7. The shadow of Macedon.