ââåathens the Eye of Greece Mother of Arts and Eloquenceã¢ââ What Does That Mean
Harvey Miller
C. Witcombe
Eye and Art in Ancient Greece
A Study in Archaeoaesthetics
256 p., 4 b/w ill. + 61 colour sick., 220 x 280 mm, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-909400-03-0
Languages: English
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Eye and Art in Aboriginal Greece examines the art of aboriginal Hellenic republic through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The cloth is approached using a newly adult methodology of archaeoaesthetics past which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasance and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts inside which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early on written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attending is given to factors contributing to the formation of gustatory modality and the emergence and manual over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their ain visual culture and how Greek art may be understood past u.s. today.
Christopher L.C.Eastward. Witcombe, a British citizen born in Oxford, studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italia, earlier moving to the U.s.a. to undertake undergraduate and graduate studies in art history. He subsequently received a Ph.D. in art history from Bryn Mawr College and is currently the Eleanor Barton and Aileen "Ninie" Laing '57 Endowed Professor in Art History at Sweetness Briar Higher. He has held visiting scholar positions at Oxford University in England and the American Academy in Rome. He lives in Virginia.
Tabular array of Contents
Affiliate 1: Introduction
1. Pliny and Pausanias
2. Pleasure and Judgment
3. Vision and Pleasure
iv. Perception and Judgment
Chapter 2: Vision and Perception in the Aboriginal Earth
5. Vision in the Ancient World
6. Stimulus and Response
seven. The Vagaries of Vision
viii. Perception and Awareness
9. Impressions
x. Associations
eleven. Cognition and Memory
12. Misperception
Chapter iii: Continuity and Alter in Ancient Greece
13. Change in Greek Sculpture
14. Unwrought Stones
15. Wooden Statues and Xoana
xvi. Divine Taste and Pleasure
17. Xoana and the Gods
eighteen. Replacements, Replicas, and Reproductions
nineteen. Hera of Samos
xx. Artemis of Ephesus
21. Athena Polias
22. The Palladion
23. Athena Parthenos
24. Dressed and Equipped for the Occasion
25. Athenas Korai
26. Three Votive Statues of Athenaby Phidias
27. Jubilant Athenas Xoana on the Acropolis
28. Artemis of Brauron
29. Apollo of Delos
Affiliate 4: Nudity in Greek Art and Culture
30. Clothing and Identity
31. Shame and Honor
32. Bathing and Dressing Statues
33. Nudity
34. Gods and Mortals
35. Nude Gods and Athletes
36. Kouroi
37. Mortals in the Likeness of Gods
38. Women and Nudity
39. The Perception of Nudity
Chapter v: Imitation and Lifelikeness
40. Statues in the Greek Visual Landscape
41. Daedalus and the NewArt
42. Sight, Seeing, and Gaze
43. Statues that Walk
44. Lifelikeness
45. Imitation (Mimesis)
46. The Visual Arts
47. Speaking Statues and Other Objects
48. Change in the Visual Arts
49. Lifelikeness in the Fifth Century
Affiliate 6: Classical Greek Aesthetics
l. Symmetria and Proportions
51. Dance and Song
52. Modes and Emotions
53. Rhythm and Harmony
54. Changes in the Quaternary Century
54. Epilogue
Listing of Illustrations
Bibliography
Index
Review
"(...) Witcombe offers an interesting and insightful collation of ancient artful values in visual art, poetry, music, and dance that volition be of involvement to anyone working on the overlap of any of these media." (Ross Brendle, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2019.x.55)
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