Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece - Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity

This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature.

List of contents

Introduction: 'I am Odysseus'; 1. Smikros and Euphronios: pictorial alter ego; 2. Archilochos, the fictional creator-protagonist, and Odysseus; 3. Hipponax and his make-believe artists; 4. Hephaistos in epic: analog of Odysseus and antithesis to Thersites; 5. Pictorial subjectivity and the Shield of Achilles on the François vase; 6. Frontality, self-reference, and social hierarchy: three Archaic vase-paintings; 7. Writing and invention in the vase-painting of Euphronios and his circle; Epilogue: persuasion, deception, and artistry on a red-figure cup.

About the author

Guy Hedreen is Professor of Art at Williams College, Massachusetts. He is author of Silens in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting: Myth and Performance (1992) and Capturing Troy: The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (2001). He has also published essays on Dionysiac myth and ritual, choral poetry, drama, the Trojan War, primitive life, the worship of Achilles, and the nature of visual narration. His awards include the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Arlt Award for his first book.

Summary

This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, Guy Hedreen offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Hedreen, Guy (Williams College Hedreen, Hedreen Guy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2015
• EAN: 9781107118256
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11825-6
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, ART / Ceramics, Ancient Greece, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Glass, History of Art, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, Human figures depicted in art, BCE period – Protohistory, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks