Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture

Informationen zum Autor Pat Getz-Gentle is the author of Early Cycladic Sculpture: An Introduction; Sculptors of the Cyclades; Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections; and Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age. A scholar of cycladic art for several decades! she holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University! USA in classical archaeology. Klappentext Pat Getz-Gentle provides a clear and detailed survey of the Cycladic period! an early Bronze Age culture that thrived at the heart of the Aegean. In particular! she emphasises the steps leading to the iconic! reclining folded-arm figure that uniquely defines the Cycladic era. Getz-Gentle also focuses on the personal aesthetics of fifteen carvers! several of whom are identified and discussed in this volume. New to this paperback edition is an expanded bibliography as well an addendum that contains additional works Getz-Gentle has attributed to some of the fifteen Cycladic sculptors she discusses in her book. Zusammenfassung Provides a clear and detailed survey of the Cycladic period! an early Bronze Age culture that thrived at the heart of the Aegean. In particular! the author emphasises the steps leading to the iconic! reclining folded-arm figure that uniquely defines the Cycladic era. She also focuses on the personal aesthetics of fifteen carvers! several of whom are identified and discussed in this volume.

Product details

• Authors: Pat Getz-Gentle, Pat/ De Vries Getz-Gentle
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9780299172046
• ISBN: 978-0-299-17204-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history