The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation (Cambridge Classical Studies) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Invention of Art History in Ancient Greece: Religion, Society and Artistic Rationalisation (Cambridge Classical Studies) Book

The ancient Greeks developed their own very specific ethos of art appreciation, advocating a rational involvement with art. This book explores why the ancient Greeks started to write art history and how the writing of art history transformed the...Read More

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  • Book Description

    In this book contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art are brought to bear on a series of fundamental questions in the history of Greek art: the causes and the cultural significance of the development of naturalism in classical Greek religious art; the sociogenesis and social functions of portraiture; the role, status and agency of artists; and the origins of art history writing in Hellenistic Greece. The Greeks are argued to have developed their own very specifi c ethos of connoisseurship which advocated a rational involvement with art.

  • 0521846145
  • 9780521846141
  • Jeremy Tanner
  • 23 March 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 331
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