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Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Oxford History of Art)

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Archaic and Classical Greek Art is a revolutionary introduction to the images and sculptures of Ancient Greece from the Geometric period to the early Hellenistic. By carefully examining the context during which sculptures and paintings were produced, writer Robin Osborne shows how artists responded to the challenges they faced in the formidable and ambitious world of the Greek city-state, producing the wealthy diversity of forms apparent in Greek art. Artistic developments of the period combined the influences of the symbolism and imagery of eastern Mediterranean art with the explorations of humanity embodied in the narratives of Greek poetry, whilst drawings and sculptures referred so intimately to the human form as to lead both ancient and up to date theorists to talk in relation to the ‘mimetic’ role of art. Ranging widely over the fields of sculpture, vase painting, and the minor arts, and offering a large choice of atypical images alongside the familiar masterpieces, this work discusses the changing sorts of art, and how art used to be used to define men’s relationships with other men, women, slaves, society, nature, and the gods.

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