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- catalog abstract ""In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice "good to think with."" "By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social - rather than purely aesthetic - study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12183151.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice "good to think with."" "By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social - rather than purely aesthetic - study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-342) and indexes (p. [343]-360).".
- catalog description "Replacement and Replication -- Replacing the Absent -- Replication and Its Limits -- Developments in Late Archaic and Classical Statuary -- Works of Art in Fifth-Century Texts -- Late Classical Images and the Platonic Account -- Inside and Out -- Representing Divinity -- Cult Activities -- Vacant or Full? -- The Quick and the Dead -- Inanimate Images and the Dead -- Divine Motion and Sight -- For Love of a Statue -- Image Love in Literary Accounts -- Real-World Viewing -- The Image in the Text -- The Funerary Monument -- Victory Statues -- Honorific Statues and the Encomiastic Address -- Imaging the Word -- Epilogue: Lucian's Retrospective.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 360 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691044317 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Art and literature Greece.".
- catalog subject "Greek literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PA3015.S82 S74 2001".
- catalog subject "Sculpture in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sculpture, Greek, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sculpture, Greek.".
- catalog subject "Statues Greece.".
- catalog subject "Statues in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Replacement and Replication -- Replacing the Absent -- Replication and Its Limits -- Developments in Late Archaic and Classical Statuary -- Works of Art in Fifth-Century Texts -- Late Classical Images and the Platonic Account -- Inside and Out -- Representing Divinity -- Cult Activities -- Vacant or Full? -- The Quick and the Dead -- Inanimate Images and the Dead -- Divine Motion and Sight -- For Love of a Statue -- Image Love in Literary Accounts -- Real-World Viewing -- The Image in the Text -- The Funerary Monument -- Victory Statues -- Honorific Statues and the Encomiastic Address -- Imaging the Word -- Epilogue: Lucian's Retrospective.".
- catalog title "Images in mind : statues in archaic and classical Greek literature and thought / Deborah Tarn Steiner.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".