Jenifer Neils

The Parthenon Frieze

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Neils's examination of the Parthenon frieze's visual language offers new insight into this important monument.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9780521684026
• ISBN-10: 0521684021
• Artikelnr.: 22457987

Autorenporträt

Dr. Jenifer Neils is Ruth Coutler Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, where she has taught since 1980. A scholar of Greek art and archaeology, she organized the exhibition "Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens" and edited the exhibition catalogue. Neils is also author of The Youthful Deeds of Theseus, the second Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Polis: the context of ritual
Paradeigma: designing the frieze
Techne: carving the frieze
Mimesis: the high classical style
Iconographia: identifying the players
Iconologia: interpreting the frieze
Kleos: the impact of the frieze
Thauma: whose heritage?