The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece : Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity Hardback
by Guy (Williams College, Massachusetts) Hedreen
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This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature.
Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet.
He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias.
In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, and sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction.
Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:408 pages, 25 Plates, color; 64 Halftones, unspecified; 64 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawin
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/11/2015
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- ISBN:9781107118256
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:408 pages, 25 Plates, color; 64 Halftones, unspecified; 64 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawin
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/11/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107118256