The invention of art history in Ancient Greece : religion, society and artistic rationalisation / Jeremy Tanner.

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Tanner, Jeremy, 1963-

Title & Author:

The invention of art history in Ancient Greece : religion, society and artistic rationalisation / Jeremy Tanner.

Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Description:

xv, 331 pages : illustrations.

Series:

Cambridge classical studies

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-324) and index.
Introduction: art and society in classical art history -- Rethinking the Greek revolution: art and aura in an age of enchantment -- Portraits and society in classical Greece -- Culture, social structure and artistic agency in classical Greece -- Reasonable ways of looking at pictures: high culture in Hellenistic Greece and the Roman empire -- Epilogue: art after art history.

Summary:

"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 social functions of art in the Greek world. It looks at the invention of the genre of portraiture, and the social uses to which portraits were put in the city state. Later chapters explore how artists sought to enhance their status by writing theoretical treatises and producing works of art intended for purely aesthetic contemplation which ultimately gave rise to the writing of art history and to the development of art collecting. The study, which is illustrated throughout and which draws on contemporary perspectives in the sociology of art, will prompt the student of classical art to rethink fundamental assumptions on Greek art and its cultural and social implications."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

0521846145 (hbk.)
9780521846141 (hbk.)

Subject:

Art Greece History.
Art and society Greece.
Art Grèce Histoire.
Art et société Grèce.
Art
Art and society
Kunst
Gesellschaft
Kunstgeschichtsschreibung
Art Greece.
Greece
Griechenland
Greece Antiquities Expertising.
Griechenland <Altertum>

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Cambridge classical studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252064
Call No.: BIB 181076
Status: Available

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