
Making Sense of Greek Art
Viccy Coltman(Editor)
University of Exeter Press
Published on 25. August 2012
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-0-85989-830-0 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of ten essays by classicists, art historians and archaeologists seeks to engage with the intellectual challenge that is making sense of Greek art. Each essay and the collection as a whole strives to ask what is at stake historically in the designation 'Greek art' through the close study of a variety of objects, including sculptures, paintings, mirrors and mosaics, in their ancient Greek context and through their later adoptions and reworkings from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The ten essays trace a thread of classical artistry across the centuries, and are published here in memory of John Betts, who taught in the Department of Classics at the University of Bristol for thirty-seven years and founded Bristol Classical Press in 1977. Chronologically, the essays cover the so-called Archaic period in Greece, from 750-500 BCE, up to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in mid nineteenth-century Britain. With this vast historical panorama, the volume offers a series of discrete historical case-studies, with a surprising overlap in the recurring themes of originality and reproduction, cultural identities and desire.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Liverpool University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85989-830-0 (9780859898300)
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Viccy Coltman is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and has held visiting fellowships at the British School at Rome; Center for British Art; Yale University; the National Gallery of Art in Washington; IASH (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanties, University of Edinburgh); CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge); and the Huntington Library, California.
Content
List of illustrations
Introduction
1: Contextual Iconography: the Horses of Artemis Orthia; Nicki Waugh
2: Reconsidering the Meanings of Athenian Figured Vases; Zosia Archibald
3: Reflections of Greek Myth in Etruria: Thetis; Vedia Izzet
4: Aphrodite's Mirror: Reflections of Greek Art in Roman Houses; Shelley Hales
5: The Archaic Style in Sculpture in the Eyes of Ancient and Modern Viewers; Christopher Hallett
6: Jacques-Louis David, the Greek Ideal, and an Alternative; Ed Lilley
7: 'The Most Ancient Monuments of the Fine Arts': Collecting and Displaying Greek Vases in Early Nineteenth-Century English Interiors; Viccy Coltman
8: Sculpturae uitam insufflat pictura: Breathing Life into Greek Sculpture in the Works of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Jean-Leon Gerome; Genevieve Liveley
9: 'Living Alma-Tadema Pictures': Hypatia at The Haymarket Theatre; Michael Liversidge
10: Marbles for the Masses: the Elgin Marbles at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham; Kate Nichols
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1: Contextual Iconography: the Horses of Artemis Orthia; Nicki Waugh
2: Reconsidering the Meanings of Athenian Figured Vases; Zosia Archibald
3: Reflections of Greek Myth in Etruria: Thetis; Vedia Izzet
4: Aphrodite's Mirror: Reflections of Greek Art in Roman Houses; Shelley Hales
5: The Archaic Style in Sculpture in the Eyes of Ancient and Modern Viewers; Christopher Hallett
6: Jacques-Louis David, the Greek Ideal, and an Alternative; Ed Lilley
7: 'The Most Ancient Monuments of the Fine Arts': Collecting and Displaying Greek Vases in Early Nineteenth-Century English Interiors; Viccy Coltman
8: Sculpturae uitam insufflat pictura: Breathing Life into Greek Sculpture in the Works of Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Jean-Leon Gerome; Genevieve Liveley
9: 'Living Alma-Tadema Pictures': Hypatia at The Haymarket Theatre; Michael Liversidge
10: Marbles for the Masses: the Elgin Marbles at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham; Kate Nichols
Bibliography
Index