Caroline Vout

Gebundenes Buch

Classical Art

A Life History from Antiquity to the Present

Beschreibung

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history

Autor

Caroline Vout is Reader in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. Her books include Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome, The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City , and Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 266mm x 200mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 1492g
• ISBN-13: 9780691177038
• ISBN-10: 0691177031
• Artikelnr.: 49327762

Rezensionen

"This is an ambitious, highly original, and timely book. It is a sophisticated contribution to art history, classics, classical archaeology, and classical reception studies, and will be essential reading for scholars in all these fields."--Elizabeth Prettejohn, author of The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso