Daidalos At Work

Author : Clairy Palyvou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781623034269

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Daidalos at Work by Clairy Palyvou Pdf

This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos. Architecture is the protagonist, whereas the prehistoric time of this architecture is as important as any other historical time. This book is firmly based on the realities of a long-silenced world available to us today through the agency of archaeology. In that sense, it addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm. This dual goal emanates from my deep belief in the timeless and universal values of architecture. As a teacher of (history of) architecture, the challenge has been to bring history into the studios where future architecture is formulated, to engage history in the discourse on current architectural ethos and practices, and to show that an analytical and critical approach to the past is a potent tool for advancing architectural awareness and educating future architects. I am equally confident that such an approach will return its benefits back to history, for it will provide new tools of thought and methods of interpretation of the relics of the past. Having set the scope of this book, it is only fair to add what is not included in its goals: the reader will not find a descriptive account of Minoan buildings and sites nor a list of the major architectural achievements in chronological order. This is due not only to the enormous amount of relevant information that has been accumulated to date, but also to an altogether different interest in the subject, as described above. Time, however, is crucial: "We have a mental need to grasp that we are rooted in the continuity of time, and in the man-made world it is the task of architecture to facilitate this experience" (Pallasmaa 2005b, 32). Time-related issues, therefore, such as permanence and change or tradition and innovation, will concern us.

Author : Sarah P. Morris
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691241944

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Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art by Sarah P. Morris Pdf

In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.

Author : K. W. Arafat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521604184

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Pausanias' Greece by K. W. Arafat Pdf

"This book is a re-reading of Plato's early dialogues from the point of view of the characters with whom Socrates engages in debate. Socrates' interlocutors are generally acknowledged to play important dialectical and dramatic roles, but no previous book has focused mainly on them. Unlike existing studies, which are thoroughly dismissive of the interlocutors and reduce them to the status of mere mouthpieces for views which are hopelessly confused or demonstrably false, this book takes them seriously and treats them as genuine intellectual opponents whose views are often more defensible that commentators have standardly thought. The author's purpose is not to summarize their positions or the arguments of the dialogues in which they appear, much less to produce a series of biographical sketches, but to investigate the phenomenology of philosophical disputation as it manifests itself in the early dialogues."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Rodney Castleden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134967858

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The Knossos Labyrinth by Rodney Castleden Pdf

Knossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Middle Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh, and was from the start the focus of a glittering and exotic culture. Homer left elusive clues about the Knossian court and when the lost site of Knossos gradually re-emerged from obscurity in the nineteenth century, the first excavators - Minos Kalokairinos, Heinrich Schliemann, and Arthur Evans - were predisposed to see the site through the eyes of the classical authors. Rodney Castleden argues that this line of thought was a false trail and gives an alternative insight into the labyrinth which is every bit as exciting as the traditional explanations, and one which he believes is much closer to the truth. Rejecting Evans' view of Knossos as a bronze age royal palace, Castleden puts forward alternative interpretations - that the building was a necropolis or a temple - and argues that the temple interpretation is the most satisfactory in the light of modern archaeological knowledge about Minoan Crete.

Author : J. J. Pollitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521273668

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The Art of Ancient Greece by J. J. Pollitt Pdf

This book, a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (published by the Press in 1983), presents a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts. Its purpose is to make this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology. The author's translations of a wide selection of Greek and Latin texts are accompanied by an introduction, explanatory commentary, and a full bibliography. An earlier version of this book was published twenty-five years ago by Prentice-Hall. In this new publication Professor Pollitt has added a considerable number of new passages, revised some of his earlier translations and presented the texts in a different order which allows the reader to follow more easily the development of sculpture and painting as perceived by the ancient writers. The new and substantial bibliography, organised by topics as they appear in the book, emphasises works that deal directly with the literary sources or that supplement our knowledge of the personalities and monuments described in the sources. This collection will be welcomed by students and teachers of Greek art who have long been in need of an authoritative and reliable sourcebook for their subject.

Author : British School at Athens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39015042014400

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The Annual of the British School at Athens by British School at Athens Pdf

"A short history of the British school at Athens. 1886-1911", by G. A. Macmillan: no. 17, p. [ix]-xxxviii.

Author : Kristin Gjesdal,Fred Rush,Ingvild Torsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429870033

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Philosophy of Sculpture by Kristin Gjesdal,Fred Rush,Ingvild Torsen Pdf

Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical. This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms, representing approaches to sculpture from the perspectives of both Anglo-American and European philosophy. Some of the essays are historically situated, while others are more straightforwardly conceptual. All of the essays, however, pay strict attention to actual sculptural examples in their discussions. This reflects the overall aim of the volume to not merely "apply" philosophy to sculpture, but rather to test the philosophical approaches taken in tandem with deep analyses of sculptural examples. There is an array of philosophical problems unique to sculpture, namely certain aspects of its three-dimensionality, physicality, temporality, and morality. The authors in this volume respond to a number of challenging philosophical questions related to these characteristics. Furthermore, while the focus of most of the essays is on Western sculptural traditions, there are contributions that features discussion of sculptural examples from non-Western sources. Philosophy of Sculpture is the first full-length book treatment of the philosophical significance of sculpture in English. It is a valuable resource for advanced students and scholars across aesthetics, art history, history, performance studies, and visual studies.

Author : Tracy Barrett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780547677552

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Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett Pdf

“A historically rich reworking of Theseus and the Minotaur . . . A world and story both excitingly alien and pleasingly familiar” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Ariadne is destined to become a goddess of the moon. She leads a lonely life, filled with hours of rigorous training by stern priestesses. Her former friends no longer dare to look at her, much less speak to her. All that she has left are her mother and her beloved, misshapen brother Asterion, who must be held captive below the palace for his own safety. So when a ship arrives one spring day, bearing a tribute of slaves from Athens, Ariadne sneaks out to meet it. These newcomers don’t know the ways of Krete; perhaps they won’t be afraid of a girl who will someday be a powerful goddess. And indeed, she meets Theseus, the son of the king of Athens. Ariadne finds herself drawn to the newcomer, and soon they form a friendship—one that could perhaps become something more. Yet Theseus is doomed to die as an offering to the Minotauros, that monster beneath the palace—unless he can kill the beast first. And that “monster” is Ariadne’s brother . . . “Fans of historical fiction and Greek myths should be pleased.” —Booklist “Barrett offers clever commentary on the spread of gossip and an intriguing matriarchal version of the story. Fans of Greek mythology should appreciate this edgier twist on one of its most familiar tales.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Gianpiero Rosati
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198852438

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Narcissus and Pygmalion by Gianpiero Rosati Pdf

"Metamorphoses Ovid Translated by A. D. Melville and Edited with introduction and notes by E. J. Kenney OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS Metamorphic Readings Transformation, Language, and Gender in the Interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses Edited by Alison Sharrock, Daniel Möller, and Mats Malm Ovid's Presence in Contemporary Women's Writing Strange Monsters Fiona Cox CLASSICAL PRESENCES"--

Author : Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Sculpture
ISBN : OXFORD:590686760

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A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell Pdf

Author : Margaret Groeneveld,Barrie Houlihan,Fabien Ohl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136937477

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Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe by Margaret Groeneveld,Barrie Houlihan,Fabien Ohl Pdf

Although there is significant interest in the social role of sport in fostering civil society from both policymakers and academics, there is a lack of evidence of the specific role of sport federations in this system. This book critically presents the mechanisms and structures in a selection of sport federations within a variety of European countries that illuminate the varied relationships between not-for-profit sport federations, their members, governments and the citizens they represent. The contributors explore the contrasts and synergies between core social capital theoretical perspectives, and how these may be informed by and/or shape the realities of governance from different perspectives within the sport system.

Author : Guy Hedreen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107118256

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The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece by Guy Hedreen Pdf

This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.

Author : Klaire Palyvou,Clairy Palyvou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1931534942

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Daidalos at Work by Klaire Palyvou,Clairy Palyvou Pdf

The Bronze Age was a time of affluence and innovation for Crete, a unique "moment" in the early history of architecture that, in a bizarre way, echos the modern world of the 20th century AD. The mythical Daidalos, with his many attributes and tasks, stands for the protoype of "an architect at work," following orders and desires set by his clients and by society. The labyrinth, as a paradigm of order, stands for the primordial idea of architeccture and a metaphor of human existence. In this book, architecture is the protagonist and phenomoneology the basic tool of thought. It addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm.

Author : Mary C. Stieber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004189065

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Euripides and the Language of Craft by Mary C. Stieber Pdf

This first in-depth account of Euripides' relationship with the visual arts demonstrates how frequently the tragedian used language to visual effect, whether through allusion or actual references to objects, motifs built around real or imaginary objects, or the use of technical terminology.

Author : Jennifer M. S. Stager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781009034661

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Seeing Color in Classical Art by Jennifer M. S. Stager Pdf

The remains of ancient Mediterranean art and architecture that have survived over the centuries present the modern viewer with images of white, the color of the stone often used for sculpture. Antiquarian debates and recent scholarship, however, have challenged this aspect of ancient sculpture. There is now a consensus that sculpture produced in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as art objects in other media, were, in fact, polychromatic. Color has consequently become one of the most important issues in the study of classical art. Jennifer Stager's landmark book makes a vital contribution to this discussion. Analyzing the dyes, pigments, stones, earth, and metals found in ancient art works, along with the language that writers in antiquity used to describe color, she examines the traces of color in a variety of media. Stager also discusses the significance of a reception history that has emphasized whiteness, revealing how ancient artistic practice and ancient philosophies of color significantly influenced one another.