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Author : Stephen E. Kidd
Release : 2019-05-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece by : Stephen E. Kidd
Download or read book Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece written by Stephen E. Kidd. This book was released on 2019-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the connections between art and play in ancient Greek thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle.
Author : James I. Porter
Release : 2016-10-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 259/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece by : James I. Porter
Download or read book The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece written by James I. Porter. This book was released on 2016-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2015-07-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 645/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics by : Pierre Destrée
Download or read book A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics written by Pierre Destrée. This book was released on 2015-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2014
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Beauty by : David Konstan
Download or read book Beauty written by David Konstan. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes something beautiful? In this engaging, elegant study, David Konstan turns to ancient Greece to address the nature of beauty.
Author : François Lissarrague
Release : 2014-07-14
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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Book Rating : 152/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet by : François Lissarrague
Download or read book The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet written by François Lissarrague. This book was released on 2014-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
