Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art
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- Author: Andrew Stewart, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: December 2008
- availability: In stock
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521618359
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What was the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art? What were its contexts, aims, achievements, and impact? This book introduces students to these questions and guides them towards the answers. Andrew Stewart examines Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the period.
Read more- 173 color and black-and-white photographs, over half of them new and many unpublished
- A special chapter on the city, the household, and the individual in classical Greek art
- Includes timeline, biographical sketches, and other reference data
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- Date Published: December 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521618359
- length: 376 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.79kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Archaic into classical: the Greek revolution
2. The first generation
3. The classical moment
4. Interlude: city, household, and individual in classical Greece
5. The great convulsion
6. The fourth century: an age of the individual?
7. The shadow of Macedon.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Ancient Greece and Rome
- Ancient Greeece
- Ancient Greek History
- Ancient Greek States
- Ancient History: Greece: The Greek World from Homer to Thucydides
- Ancient Near East and Greece
- Art and Craftsman in Ancient Greece
- Art of Ancient Greece and Rome
- ArtH Greek Art and Architecture
- Arts of Ancient Greece and Rome
- Classical Art
- Classical Art & Archaeology
- Classical Study Tour of Greece
- Colloquium: European Cultural and Intellectual History
- Fifth Century Athens
- Graduate Seminar on European Topics
- Greek Civ
- Greek World
- Greek and Roman Archaeology
- Greek and Roman Art
- Hellenistic Art
- Introduction to Classical Archaeology
- Solon to Socrates
- The Ancient Greeks
- The Greek Enlightenment
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