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- Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art: And Art
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences.
Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xiii-xiv
- 1. Aims, Approaches, and Samples
- pp. 3-26
- 2. Full Presentation of the Image
- pp. 27-71
- 3. Reader or Viewer Supplementation
- pp. 72-102
- 4. Reader or Viewer Integration
- pp. 103-123
- 6. Viewing Pleasure and Pain
- pp. 144-167
- Bibliography
- pp. 201-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299194536
Related ISBN(s)
9780299194505, 9780299194543
MARC Record
OCLC
294954094
Pages
242
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2003