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Greek art / Nigel Spivey.

By: Spivey, Nigel Jonathan [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Art & ideas: Publisher: London : Phaidon, 1997Publisher: ©1997Description: 447 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714833681 (paperback).Subject(s): Art, Greek | Art, Hellenistic | Architecture -- Greece | Greece -- Antiquities | Greece -- CivilizationDDC classification: 709.38
Contents:
The artist in ancient Greece -- The question of origins: the prehistoric Aegean -- Epic figures: myth in early art -- Competition and commemoration: cities and sanctuaries -- Democracy's children: art in the age of Perikles -- Myth into history, history into myth: temple sculptures -- The world as a stage: art and Greek drama -- Colossal ambitions: Alexander's impact on art -- Across two millennia: the Greek legacy.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Nigel Spivey sets the formation of the classical style in its proper historical context. He explores the question of how Greek art was inextricably bound up with the social, religious, philosophical and political factors of the period and explains the art not only in terms of those who commissioned and created it, but also with reference to the archaeology of the places which hosted it.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-440) and index.

The artist in ancient Greece -- The question of origins: the prehistoric Aegean -- Epic figures: myth in early art -- Competition and commemoration: cities and sanctuaries -- Democracy's children: art in the age of Perikles -- Myth into history, history into myth: temple sculptures -- The world as a stage: art and Greek drama -- Colossal ambitions: Alexander's impact on art -- Across two millennia: the Greek legacy.

CIT Module ARTS 7003 - Core reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nigel Spivey, a scholar of Greek, Etruscan and Roman art, lectures in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University, where he is also a fellow of Emmanuel College. He is the author of Understanding Greek Sculpture and Etruscan Art .