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Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

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Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art

Andrew Stewart, University of California, Berkeley
December 2008
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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.

    • 173 color and black-and-white photographs, over half of them new and many unpublished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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    December 2008
    Paperback
    9780521618359
    376 pages
    254 × 178 × 17 mm
    0.79kg
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    Contents

    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.
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    • Ancient Greece and Rome
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    • Ancient Greek History
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    • Ancient History: Greece: The Greek World from Homer to Thucydides
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    • Greek and Roman Art
    • 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
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    • Fifth Century Athens
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    • Greek and Roman Archaeology
    • Greek Civ
    • Greek World
    • Hellenistic Art
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    • Solon to Socrates
    • The Ancient Greeks
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    • Andrew Stewart , University of California, Berkeley

      Andrew Stewart is Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. A scholar of Greek art and archaeology, he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Getty Foundations and the ACLS and is a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. He is the author of Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece and most recently, Attalos Athens and the Akropolis: The Pergamene 'Little Barbarians' and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy.

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