Nassos Papalexandrou

Bronze Monsters and the Cultures of Wonder

Griffin Cauldrons in the Preclassical Mediterranean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An enlightening study of griffin cauldrons in the pre-classical Mediterranean, uncovering the origins of illusionism in Greek art and exploring the social significance of a changing visual culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781477323618
• ISBN-10: 1477323619
• Artikelnr.: 61935242

Autorenporträt

Nassos Papalexandrou is an associate professor of art history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgments
4. Introduction
5. Part I. Griffin Cauldrons in Contexts of Life and Death
* Chapter 1. Eastern Mediterranean, Ionia, and the Aegean
* Chapter 2. Mainland Greece
* Chapter 3. Italy and France
6. Part II. Sources for the Lives of Griffin Cauldrons
* Chapter 4. Kolaios’s Monster Cauldron at the Heraion of Samos
(Herodotus 4.152)
* Chapter 5. Monsters in Images: Pictorial Representations of Griffin
Cauldrons
7. Part III. Responses to the Uncanny
* Chapter 6. Vision of Wonders
8. Conclusion. Disenchantment
9. Notes
10. References
11. Index