Jeremy Tanner

The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece

Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a contemporary sociological approach to fundamental questions in the history of Greek art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9780521114226
• ISBN-10: 0521114225
• Artikelnr.: 26608299

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Tanner is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Art at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is the author of The Sociology of Art: A Reader (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: art and society in classical art history
2. Rethinking the Greek revolution: art and aura in an age of enchantment
3. Portraits and society in classical Greece
4. Culture, social structure and artistic agency in classical Greece
5. Reasonable ways of looking at pictures: high culture in Hellenistic Greece and the Roman empire
6. Epilogue: art after art history.