Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece - Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation

Informationen zum Autor Jeremy Tanner is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Art at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is the author of The Sociology of Art: A Reader (2003). Klappentext Offers a contemporary sociological approach to fundamental questions in the history of Greek art. Zusammenfassung Offers a sociological approach to fundamental questions in Greek art: the causes and the cultural significance of the development of naturalism in classical Greek religious art; the sociogenesis and social functions of portraiture; the role! status and agency of artists; and the origins of art history writing in the Greek world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: art and society in classical art history; 2. Rethinking the Greek revolution: art and aura in an age of enchantment; 3. Portraits and society in classical Greece; 4. Culture, social structure and artistic agency in classical Greece; 5. Reasonable ways of looking at pictures: high culture in Hellenistic Greece and the Roman empire; 6. Epilogue: art after art history.

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• Authors: Jeremy Tanner, Jeremy (University College London) Tanner
• Assisted by: P. E. Easterling (Editor), M. K. Hopkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2006
• EAN: 9780521846141
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84614-1
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history