Hellenistic Art

Author : Lucilla Burn
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Hellenistic
ISBN : 0892367768

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Hellenistic Art by Lucilla Burn Pdf

In this beautifully illustrated volume, Burn (Keeper of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) introduces the Hellenistic world to students and readers interested in ancient Greek society. After a brief political and cultural overview, Burn identifies several distinctly Hellenistic artistic developments emerging in fourth-century Macedon. She then examines representations of royal and private individuals; the design, furnishing and appearances of cities, sanctuaries, houses and tombs; and the characteristic themes of Hellenistic iconography.

Author : Jerome Jordan Pollitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521276721

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Art in the Hellenistic Age by Jerome Jordan Pollitt Pdf

This 1986 book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period.

Author : R. R. R. Smith
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500202494

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Hellenistic Sculpture by R. R. R. Smith Pdf

Provides a thematic and regional survey of Hellenistic sculpture, focusing on its main elements and its innovations.

Author : Adi Erlich
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Limited
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1407305867

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The Art of Hellenistic Palestine by Adi Erlich Pdf

The art of the Hellenistic age (here taken as 332 BC to 37 BCE) in Palestine demonstrates the extent to which a province could be integrated into the rich, established culture of the Hellenistic world. Its study here examines the art itself, and specifically the themes, types, iconography, and style of local productions. The study can be instructive on the ethnic texture of Palestine, its regional differences, its widely practiced religion and cults, and its culture in general. Likewise, it may supplement both historical research on the period, which appears to have reached a dead end of sorts, and archaeological inquiry, the results of which have been partial or insufficient. It can help address whether the art was incorporated into the Hellenistic koine, the manner in which it utilized local and foreign elements, and the question of how the culture of the period left a mark so profound that it can be traced until the end of the Byzantine period.

Author : Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316061459

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Art in the Hellenistic World by Andrew Stewart Pdf

What was Hellenistic art, and what were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This textbook introduces students to these questions and offers a series of answers to them. Its twelve chapters and two 'focus' sections examine Hellenistic sculpture, painting, luxury arts, and architecture. Thematically organized, spanning the three centuries from Alexander to Augustus, and ranging geographically from Italy to India and the Black Sea to Nubia, the book examines key monuments of Hellenistic art in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the time. It is illustrated with 170 photographs (mostly in color, and many never before published) and contextualized through excerpts from Hellenistic literature and inscriptions. Helpful ancillary features include maps, appendices with background on Hellenistic artists and translations of key documents, a full glossary, a timeline, brief biographies of key figures, suggestions for further reading, and bibliographical references.

Author : Kristen Seaman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108490917

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Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art by Kristen Seaman Pdf

Explores how rhetorical techniques helped to produce innovations in art of the Hellenistic courts at Pergamon and Alexandria.

Author : Jane Masséglia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198723592

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Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society by Jane Masséglia Pdf

Why are so many Hellenistic kings shown with one arm in the air? Could posture distinguish the slave from the citizen? Was there a Hellenistic etiquette of sitting down? How did Hellenistic Greeks feel about the bodies of the disabled and the elderly? And what did it mean to Tuck-for-Luck? This richly-illustrated book brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects. Incorporating approaches from anthropology and archaeology, it considers a wide range of social groups, from the elite to slaves, and examines the postures, gestures, and body actions which were considered appropriate to each. By examining Hellenistic kings, queens, public intellectuals, citizen men and women, Africans, servants, paidagogoi, fishermen, peasants, old women, dwarfs, and the disabled, this study provides important new insights into what is 'Hellenistic' about Hellenistic Art, and into the anxieties of Hellenistic society. In doing so, it not only reconsiders familiar concepts such as the 'individuality' of the civic elite and the apparent passivity of women, but also reveals Hellenistic attitudes towards issues such as old age, race, and child abuse, and explores power, prejudice, and the role of art in both reflecting and enforcing social stereotypes.

Author : Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107048577

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Art in the Hellenistic World by Andrew Stewart Pdf

This book offers a new thematic, contextualized, and richly illustrated approach to art of the Hellenistic world (c.330-30 BC).

Author : Peter Green
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0520203259

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Hellenistic History and Culture by Peter Green Pdf

In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western, Greco-Roman tradition, and Nubians, Bactrians, and other subject peoples of the time are receiving attention in their own right, not just as recipients of Greco-Roman culture. History, like Herakleitos' river, never stands still. These essays share a collective sense of discovery and a sparking of new ideas—they are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.

Author : Jens M. Deahner,Kenneth Lapatin
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606064399

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Power and Pathos by Jens M. Deahner,Kenneth Lapatin Pdf

For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction. Power and Pathos is published on the occasion of an exhibition on view at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum from July 20 through November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from December 6, 2015, through March 20, 2016.

Author : Seán Hemingway,Kiki Karoglou,Dorothy H. Abramitis,Sophie Descamps-Lequime,Ariel Herrmann,Marsha Hill,Christine Kondoleon,Christopher S. Lightfoot,Carmelo Malacrino,Joan R. Mertens,Olga Palagia,Dominique Robcis,Susan I. Rotroff,Andreas Scholl,Agnes Schwarzmaier,R. R. R. Smith,Jeffrey Spier,Karen Stamm,Lillian Bartlett Stoner,Alessandro Viscogliosi,Ute Wartenberg,Mark Wypyski,Paul Zanker
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396587

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Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms by Seán Hemingway,Kiki Karoglou,Dorothy H. Abramitis,Sophie Descamps-Lequime,Ariel Herrmann,Marsha Hill,Christine Kondoleon,Christopher S. Lightfoot,Carmelo Malacrino,Joan R. Mertens,Olga Palagia,Dominique Robcis,Susan I. Rotroff,Andreas Scholl,Agnes Schwarzmaier,R. R. R. Smith,Jeffrey Spier,Karen Stamm,Lillian Bartlett Stoner,Alessandro Viscogliosi,Ute Wartenberg,Mark Wypyski,Paul Zanker Pdf

This handsome newly designed addition to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s symposia series furthers the study of one of the most influential but less known periods of Greek art and culture. It is based on papers given at a two-day scholarly symposium held in conjunction with the award-winning exhibition “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World,” on view at the Metropolitan in 2016. The twenty diverse essays exemplify the international scope of the Hellenistic arts, which cover the three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 B.C. Subjects range from twenty-first century approaches to museum displays of archaeological material to the circulation of artists and works of art throughout the Mediterranean and the influence of Hellenistic art and its legacy in the ancient Roman world. Among the topics discussed are aspects of royal self-presentation and important elements of iconography and style in coins, gems, mosaics, sculpture, vessels, and wall paintings, in mediums including bronze, faience, glass, marble, silver, and terracotta. Authored by a number of internationally renowned scholars, the essays in this volume highlight the holdings of the Metropolitan and markedly demonstrate the artistic innovations and technical mastery of Hellenistic artists, offering new insights into the vitality and complexity of Hellenistic art. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Author : Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster
Publisher : London : Methuen
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Art, Greco-Roman
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003278624

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Hellenistic Art by Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster Pdf

Author : Mel Alexenberg
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781841505053

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The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age by Mel Alexenberg Pdf

In The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age, artist and educator Mel Alexenberg offers a vision of a postdigital future that reveals a paradigm shift from the Hellenistic to the Hebraic roots of Western culture. He ventures beyond the digital to explore postdigital perspectives rising from creative encounters among art, science, technology and human consciousness. The interrelationships between these perspectives demonstrate the confluence between postdigital art and the dynamic, Jewish structure of consciousness. Alexenberg’s pioneering artwork – a fusion of spiritual and technological realms – exemplifies the theoretical thesis of this investigation into interactive and collaborative forms that imaginatively envisages the vast potential of art in a postdigital future.

Author : Jean Charbonneaux,Roland Martin,François Villard
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Art, Hellenistic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003278673

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Hellenistic Art (330-50 B.C.) by Jean Charbonneaux,Roland Martin,François Villard Pdf

Author : Michael Pfrommer
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892366330

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Greek Gold from Hellenistic Egypt by Michael Pfrommer Pdf

Although much is left to the imagination, the basic facts do come to light, and the facets and surfaces of the Getty's golden treasure enrich us with new understanding."--BOOK JACKET.