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Art and thought in the Hellenistic age : the Greek world view 350-50 BC / John Onians.

By: Onians, John, 1942-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1979Description: 192 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 26 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500272646.Subject(s): Art, GreekDDC classification: 709.38
Contents:
Athens and Atlantis - a myth of style and civilization -- Fourth-century attitudes -- Art: its classification and criticism -- Allegory, images and signs -- Measure and scale -- Time and space -- Greek epilogue - Roman prologue.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending 709.38 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00152073
General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709.38 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00062806
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Athens and Atlantis - a myth of style and civilization -- Fourth-century attitudes -- Art: its classification and criticism -- Allegory, images and signs -- Measure and scale -- Time and space -- Greek epilogue - Roman prologue.

UCC Fund.

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Publishers Weekly Review

In this ruminative collection, Gopnik offers five essays on winter-exploring it as season and idea, elemental force and cultural influence. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon composed these pieces for the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures. He acknowledges that "chapters are meant to sound vocal" and rough edges have been left in place. Readers will find pleasures of the serendipitous variety, including introductions to Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the underground architect Vincent Ponte, and the engineers who helped developed central heating. Gopnik's round-the-world tour of "romantic winter" covers more than 200 years in art, music, poetry, literature, and theology. In "Radical Winter," he describes the absurd courage of the men who raced for glory at the North and South Poles; in "Recreational Winter," he untangles the motley origins of ice hockey. Though the prose moves slowly at times, Gopnik leavens dense material with humor, and makes unwieldy concepts accessible through modern-day comparisons (consider Dickens the Francis Ford Coppola of his day). In the end, the lectures serve as Gopnik's equivalent to a Playmate's "turn-ons and turn-offs." That being the case, we'd call him a worthy Mr. December. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Spanish Review

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