Aesthetic Value In Classical Antiquity

Author : Ineke Sluiter,Ralph M. Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004232822

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Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity by Ineke Sluiter,Ralph M. Rosen Pdf

How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the ‘value’ of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the ‘life without the Muses’ to ‘the Sublime’, and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics. Aesthetic value in classical antiquity should be of interest to classicists, cultural and art historians, and philosophers.

Author : Ineke Sluiter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aesthetics, Classical
ISBN : OCLC:1039654520

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Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity by Ineke Sluiter Pdf

How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the 'value' of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the 'life without the Muses' to 'the Sublime', and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics

Author : Ineke Sluiter,Ralph M. Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004231672

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Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity by Ineke Sluiter,Ralph M. Rosen Pdf

Thinking about sensory experiences and evaluating human artifacts is an important part of Western European cultural and intellectual history. This book investigates from different perspectives the origins of this practice and the rich discourse of aesthetic value in classical antiquity.

Author : Ineke Sluiter,Ralph Rosen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047443148

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KAKOS, Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity by Ineke Sluiter,Ralph Rosen Pdf

The fourth in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical Antiquity, this volume examines the negative foils, the anti-values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and calibrated in Classical Antiquity. Eighteen chapters address this theme from different perspectives –historical, literary, legal and philosophical. What makes someone into a prototypically ‘bad’ citizen? Or an abomination of a scholar? What is the relationship between ugliness and value? How do icons of sexual perversion, monstruous emperors and detestable habits function in philosophical and rhetorical prose? The book illuminates the many rhetorical manifestations of the concept of ‘badness’ in classical antiquity in a variety of domains.

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1108137873

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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

Author : William Fitzgerald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780192646224

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The Living Death of Antiquity by William Fitzgerald Pdf

The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in different media and periods, focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the aftermath of Winckelmann's writing, John Flaxman's engraved scenes from the Iliad and the sculptors Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen reinterpreted ancient prototypes or invented new ones. Earlier and later versions of this aesthetic in the ancient Greek Anacreontea, the French Parnassian poets and Erik Satie's Socrate, manifest its character in different media and periods. Looking with a sympathetic eye on the original aspirations of the neoclassical aesthetic and its forward-looking potential, Fitzgerald describes how it can tip over into the vacancy or kitsch through which a 'remaindered' antiquity lingers in our minds and environments. This book asks how the neoclassical value of simplicity serves to conjure up an epiphanic antiquity, and how whiteness, in both its literal and its metaphorical forms, acts as the 'logo' of neoclassical antiquity, and functions aesthetically in a variety of media. In the context of the waning of a neoclassically idealized antiquity, Fitzgerald describes the new contents produced by its asymptotic approach to meaninglessness, and how the antiquity that it imagined both is and is not with us.

Author : Heinrich F. Plett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004231184

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Enargeia in Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age by Heinrich F. Plett Pdf

The present study provides an extensive treatment of the topic of enargeia on the basis of the classical and humanist sources of its theoretical foundation. These serve as the basis for detailed analyses of verbal and pictorial works of the Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age.

Author : Pierre Destrée,Penelope Murray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119009771

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A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics by Pierre Destrée,Penelope Murray Pdf

The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society

Author : Oleg V. Bychkov,Anne Sheppard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521547925

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Greek and Roman Aesthetics by Oleg V. Bychkov,Anne Sheppard Pdf

An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107192652

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Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience with the help of ancient material, exploring our responses to both narratives and images.

Author : Nikolaus Dietrich,Michael Squire
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110469578

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Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art by Nikolaus Dietrich,Michael Squire Pdf

How does ‘decoration’ work? What are the relations between ‘figurative’ and ‘ornamental’ modes? And how do such modern western distinctions relate to other critical traditions? While these questions have been much debated among art historians, our book offers an ancient visual cultural perspective. On the one hand, we argue, Greek and Roman materials have proved instrumental in shaping modern assumptions. On the other hand, those ideologies are fundamentally removed from ancient ideas: an ancient perspective can therefore shed light on larger aesthetic debates about what images are – or indeed what they should be.This anthology of specially commissioned essays explores a variety of case studies (both literary and art historical alike): it discusses materials from across the ancient Mediterranean, and from Geometric art all the way through to late antiquity; the book also tackles questions of ‘figure’ and ‘ornament’ in relation to different media – including painting, free-standing statues, relief sculpture, mosaics and architecture. A particular feature of the volume lies in bringing together different national academic traditions, building a bridge between formalist approaches and broader cultural historical perspectives.

Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037472

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The Sublime in Antiquity by James I. Porter Pdf

Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.

Author : Hugh Bredin,Liberato Santoro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050708190

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Philosophies of Art and Beauty by Hugh Bredin,Liberato Santoro Pdf

A thorough historical survey of philosophies of the arts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004319714

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Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

Valuing Landscape explores how physical environments affected the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. It demonstrates the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.

Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316630250

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The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece by James I. Porter Pdf

This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth-century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Greek aesthetics, he argues, originated in an attention to the senses and to matter as opposed to the formalism and idealism that were enshrined by Plato and Aristotle and through whose lens most subsequent views of ancient art and aesthetics have typically been filtered. Treating aesthetics in this way can help us reveal the commonly shared basis of the diverse arts of antiquity. Reorienting our view of the ancient vocabularies of art and experience around matter and sensation, this book dramatically changes how we look upon the ancient achievements in these same areas.