Play And Aesthetics In Ancient Greece
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Author | : Stephen E. Kidd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110849207X |
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Explores the connections between art and play in ancient Greek thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle.
Author | : James I. Porter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781316630259 |
Download The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth-century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Greek aesthetics, he argues, originated in an attention to the senses and to matter as opposed to the formalism and idealism that were enshrined by Plato and Aristotle and through whose lens most subsequent views of ancient art and aesthetics have typically been filtered. Treating aesthetics in this way can help us reveal the commonly shared basis of the diverse arts of antiquity. Reorienting our view of the ancient vocabularies of art and experience around matter and sensation, this book dramatically changes how we look upon the ancient achievements in these same areas.
Author | : Pierre Destrée |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2015-07-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444337645 |
Download A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society
Author | : David Konstan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 019992726X |
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What makes something beautiful? In this engaging, elegant study, David Konstan turns to ancient Greece to address the nature of beauty.
Author | : François Lissarrague |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1400861152 |
Download The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : François Lissarrague |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691633266 |
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In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm. Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Sean Alexander Gurd |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0823269663 |
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In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance reveals the commonalities between ancient Greek auditory art and the concerns of contemporary sound studies, avant-garde music, and aesthetics, making the argument that “classical” Greek song and drama were, in fact, an early European avant-garde, a proto-exploration of the aesthetics of noise. The book thus develops an alternative to that romantic ideal which sees antiquity as a frozen and silent world.
Author | : Stephen E. Kidd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107050154 |
Download Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.
Author | : Oleg V. Bychkov |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052154792X |
Download Greek and Roman Aesthetics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.
Author | : Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe |
Publisher | : Harvey Miller Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, Greek (Modern) |
ISBN | : 9781909400030 |
Download Eye and Art in Ancient Greece Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Eye and Art in Ancient Greece examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of archaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgement with the purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelikeness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and the means by which they were identified and judged. The approach facilitates encounters with the material in ways that give rise to new insights into how the ancient Greeks experienced their own visual culture and how Greek art may be understood by us today.