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Greek art / John Boardman.

By: Boardman, John, 1927-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: World of art library: Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1973 1978Edition: [Revised edition].Description: 252 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0500201358.Subject(s): Art, GreekDDC classification: 709.38
Contents:
The beginnings and geometric Greece -- Greece and the arts of the East and Egypt -- Archaic Greek art -- Classical sculpture and architecture -- Other arts in classical Greece -- Hellenistic art -- Epilogue.
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General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store 709.38 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00160684
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Bibliography: p. 238-241. - Includes index.

The beginnings and geometric Greece -- Greece and the arts of the East and Egypt -- Archaic Greek art -- Classical sculpture and architecture -- Other arts in classical Greece -- Hellenistic art -- Epilogue.

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CHOICE Review

The fifth edition of this lively, beautifully illustrated survey (1st ed., CH, Apr'65) covers a broad geographic range that extends outside of the Greek homeland. The volume examines the monumental arts--architecture, architectural sculpture, freestanding sculpture, relief sculpture; panel and wall painting; and art forms of smaller scale, such as statuettes in all materials (including ivory), vase painting, relief vases, metal vases, gems and jewelry, and coins. Original works of Greek art are emphasized, and copies of lost masterpieces are considered separately. A fascinating chapter titled "The Legacy" looks at the influence of Greek art as far away as Pakistan in antiquity and up to the present day in the Western world. There are value judgments throughout, and not all readers will agree with them. For example, Boardman (emer., Univ. of Oxford, UK) seems to prefer the Kritios boy from the Athenian Acropolis to the previous male striding nude of the kouros type, referring to the latter as "a stiff-limbed puppet"; yet inscriptions on the bases of the kouroi show that ancient viewers were intended to admire their heroic qualities. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. --Frances Van Keuren, University of Georgia