A History of Greek Art (eBook)

Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-83945-4 (ISBN)

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Offering a unique blend of thematic and chronological investigation, this highly illustrated, engaging text explores the rich historical, cultural, and social contexts of 3,000 years of Greek art, from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.

• Uniquely intersperses chapters devoted to major periods of Greek art from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period, with chapters containing discussions of important contextual themes across all of the periods
• Contextual chapters illustrate how a range of factors, such as the urban environment, gender, markets, and cross-cultural contact, influenced the development of art
• Chronological chapters survey the appearance and development of key artistic genres and explore how artifacts and architecture of the time reflect these styles
• Offers a variety of engaging and informative pedagogical features to help students navigate the subject, such as timelines, theme-based textboxes, key terms defined in margins, and further readings.
• Information is presented clearly and contextualized so that it is accessible to students regardless of their prior level of knowledge
• A book companion website is available at www.wiley.gom/go/greekart with the following resources: PowerPoint slides, glossary, and timeline

Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell is a Professor of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He is the author of Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art (1999), Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens (2006), and Looking at Greek Art (2011).

Inhalt

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Timeline

About the website

Maps

1 Introduction and Issues in the History of Greek Art

2 The Early and Middle Bronze Ages (c. 3100-1600 BCE)

3 The Late Bronze Age II-III (c. 1600-1075 BCE)

4 The Sub-Mycenaean, Protogeometric, & Geometric Periods (c. 1075-700 BCE)

5 Contexts I: Civic, Domestic, and Funerary

6 The Seventh Century (c. 725/700-625/600 BCE)

7 Contexts II: Sanctuaries and Architecture

8 The Sixth Century (c. 625/600-480 BCE)

9 Narrative

10 The Fifth-Century (c. 480-400 BCE)

11 The Production of Greek Art and its Markets; Textbox: Ancient and Modern Values of Art

12 The Fourth Century to c. 330 BCE

13 Identity

14 The Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE)

15 Epilogue

Glossary

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"Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell has written a thoroughly
contemporary history of Greek art - the first that
effectively integrates discussions of context with sensitive
analysis of style. It provides students with a rich introduction to
the fabric of ancient Greek culture." Tom Carpenter, Ohio
University

"Stansbury-O'Donnell's admirable and
innovative history deserves special praise for the fact that it
devotes as much attention to ancient Greek art's cultural
context as to its chronological and aesthetic development."
J.J. Pollitt, Yale University

"Engaging introduction to Greek art...offers
diachronic framework interspersed with chapters on synchronic
themes, enhanced with comparative timelines including major
monuments, definitions in margins, and profuse high-quality
illustrations." Barbara A. Barletta, University of
Florida

"A marvelous book, beautifully written and lavishly
illustrated, it presents a well-rounded narrative of ancient Greek
material culture. Combining a traditional diachronic approach with
a fresh thematic coverage of the "contexts" of ancient
Greek art, it provides a comprehensive understanding of the Greeks
and their world for students at all levels." Kim S.
Shelton, University of California, Berkeley

"One of the many things that makes
Stansbury-O'Donnell's new survey of Greek art so
refreshing - and so important - is his commitment to
deep contexts. Specifically, he challenges students and teachers to
think beyond the typical evolutionary model of 'ancient Greek
art history,' and instead brilliantly focuses their attention
on the rich cultural matrix that Greek art reflected, generated,
and inspired." Peter Schultz, Concordia
College

"Stansbury-O'Odonnell has created an up-to-date and
stimulating volume that presents an intelligible chronological
survey of Greek Art, interspersed with sections on contextual
issues that examine the material from multiple synchronic
perspectives and standpoints. This work will provide a
valuable starting point for discussion among students on issues
ancient and modern." Craig I. Hardiman, University of Waterloo,
Canada

"With Stansbury-O'Donnell's skills in the
interpretation of Greek art and the critical analysis of its
historiography setting the tone throughout, this book provides
readers at all levels with an insightful, thought-provoking
introduction. Its clear structure, exquisite illustrations and
extensive supporting materials make it the most comprehensive
undergraduate textbook currently on the market." Katharina
Lorenz, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

"Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell's A History of
Greek Art presents a wide-ranging, magisterial, and superbly
illustrated account of Greek art from the beginning of the Bronze
Age to the end of the Hellenistic period. Its clear structure and
exceedingly well chosen examples are most useful to students and
teachers alike." Thomas Mannack, Beazley Archive, Oxford,
United Kingdom

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.11.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Ancient & Classical Greek & Hellenistic History • Classical Greek Culture • Classical Studies • Greek art, painting, mosaic, sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, Bronze Age Greece, Proto-Geometric and Geometric Periods, Greek architecture, Orientalizing Period, Archaic Period, Fifth-Century Classical, Athenian pottery, Greek vase, Praxiteles, Skopas, Lysippos, Fourth-Century Classical, Hellenistic Period, mosaics, theatricism, antiquarianism, Athens, Epidauros, sculptural workshop, architectural sculpture, terracotta figurines, Mahdia shipwreck, Antikythera shipwreck • Griechenland /Kultur, Künste • Griechenland /Kultur, Künste • Hellenistische Geschichte, Geschichte der griechischen Antike • Humanistische Studien • Kultur der griechischen Antike • Kunstgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-118-83945-5 / 1118839455
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-83945-4 / 9781118839454