Shaping Ceremony - Monumental Steps and Greek Architecture

Informationen zum Autor Mary B. Hollinshead is a professor of art history at the University of Rhode Island. She has excavated at sites in Italy, Cyprus, and Greece. Klappentext Offering a fresh approach to ancient Greek architecture, Shaping Ceremony focuses on the overlooked subject of monumental steps. Written in a clear and readable style, the book presents three complementary ways of studying steps: examining how the human body works on steps; theoretical perspectives on the relationship between architecture and human behavior; and the socio-political effects of steps' presence. Zusammenfassung Shaping Ceremony offers a fresh approach to ancient Greek architecture! using the overlooked subject of monumental steps! incorporating biomechanics! theory! and social context.

Product details

• Authors: Mary B Hollinshead, Mary B. Hollinshead
• Assisted by: Gerhard Richter (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2014
• EAN: 9780299301101
• ISBN: 978-0-299-30110-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture