Images in Mind : : Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought / / Deborah Tarn Steiner.
In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers an...
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Steiner, Deborah Tarn, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Images in Mind : Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought / Deborah Tarn Steiner. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©2001 1 online resource (384 p.) : 29 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Replacement and Replication -- Chapter Two. Inside and Out -- Chapter Three. The Quick and the Dead -- Chapter Four. For Love of a Statue -- Chapter Five. The Image in the Text -- EPILOGUE. Lucian's Retrospective -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Cited -- Subject Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.'' Deborah Tarn Steiner considers how Greek authors used images to ponder the relation of a copy to an original and of external appearance to inner reality. For these writers, a sculpture could straddle life and death, encode desire, or occasion reflection on their own act of producing a text. Many of the same sources also reveal how thinking about statues was reflected in the objects' everyday treatment. Viewing representations of gods and heroes as vessels hosting a living force, worshippers ritually washed, clothed, and fed them in order to elicit the numinous presence within. By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social--rather than purely aesthetic--study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Feb 2021) Aesthetics, Ancient. Art and literature Greece. Greek literature History and criticism. Sculpture in literature. Sculpture, Greek, in literature. Statues in literature. Statues Greece. HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. bisacsh Achilles. Admetus. Alcibiades. Daidalos. Dionysus. Gorgias. Gorgon. Harmodios and Aristogeiton. Helen. Hephaistos. Hermes. Kronos. Leagros. Lucian. Lykosura. Menelaus. Nike. Niobe. Odysseus. Pandora. Pelops. Pindar. Socrates. athletic images. base, of statue. blindness. chariot race. charis. civic life. cult images. daidalon. eikones. eros. facture. festivals. funerary monuments. homosocial relations. idealization. immobility. ivory. korai. mirror image. mobility. realism. summetria. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691218489?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691218489 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691218489.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter One. Replacement and Replication -- Chapter Two. Inside and Out -- Chapter Three. The Quick and the Dead -- Chapter Four. For Love of a Statue -- Chapter Five. The Image in the Text -- EPILOGUE. Lucian's Retrospective -- Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages Cited -- Subject Index |
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