Art in the Era of Alexander the Great - Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions

Informationen zum Autor Ada Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeat and co-editor of Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy and Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography. Klappentext In this book, Ada Cohen focuses on art produced in Macedonia during the late Classical and early Hellenistic period. Zusammenfassung Ada Cohen focuses on art produced in Macedonia during the late Classical and early Hellenistic period! which coincides with the reigns of Philip II! his famous son Alexander the Great! and their immediate successors. Although inspired by traditional Greek themes and ideals! this body of artwork articulated specifically Macedonian aspirations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: themes and issues; 2. Figural mosaics in the House of the Abduction of Helen at Pella: three themes; 3. Master of lions (and other animals); 4. War as hunt; hunt as war?; 5. Rape as hunt; hunt as rape?; 6. Rape as war; war as rape?; 7. Abduction and femininity; 8. Hunt and masculinity; Epilogue: fixing the pose.

Product details

• Authors: Ada Cohen, Ada (Dartmouth College Cohen, Cohen Ada
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521769044
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76904-4
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Ancient Greece, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History of Art, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek style