UID:
almafu_9959328714002883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781119009771
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1119009774
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9781119009788
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1119009782
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9781119009795
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1119009790
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Content:
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.
Note:
Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry / Richard P. Martin -- Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric / Deborah Steiner -- The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World / Graham Zanker -- Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics / Thomas Habinek -- Music and Dance in Greece and Rome / Eleonora Rocconi -- The Body, Human and Divine in Greek Sculpture / Rosemary Barrow -- Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome / Agnes̀ Rouveret -- Architecture and Society / Catherine Saliou -- Literary Criticism and the Poet's Autonomy / Andrew Ford -- Poetic Inspiration / Penelope Murray -- The Canons of Style / Jeffrey Walker -- Sense and Sensation in Music / Armand D'Angour -- Dance adn Aesthetic Perception / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimes̄is / Hariclia Brecoulaki -- Ways of Looking at Greek Vases / Francois Lissarrague -- Displaying Sculpture in Rome / Thea Ravasi -- Perceiving Colors / M. Michela Sassi -- The Beauties of Architecture / Edmund Thomas -- Stylistic Landscapes / Nancy Worman -- Conceptualizing the (Visual) "Arts" / Michael Squire -- Mimesis / Paul Woodruff -- Fiction / Stephen Halliwell -- Imagination / Anne Sheppard -- Beauty / David Konstan -- Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion / Malcolm Heath -- The Sublime / James I. Porter -- Poikilia / Adeline Grand-Cleḿent -- Wonder / Christine Hunzinger -- Tragic Emotions / Christof Rapp -- Laughter / Ralph M. Rosen -- Pleasure / Pierre Destreé -- Art and Morality / Elizabeth Asmis -- Art and Value / Michael Silk.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to ancient aesthetics. Hoboken : Wiley, 2015 ISBN 9781444337648
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119009795
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119009795
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119009795
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