In this deliciously detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA,
Elgin) Marbles, award-winning poet and writer A. E. Stallings discusses
the removal of the Marbles from the Athenian Acropolis, their
misadventures before and after installation in the British Museum (from
shipwreck to boxing matches), and the debate over their future and
possible reunion in Greece.
Bringing fresh air to a stale debate, Frieze Frame explores the effect
the Marbles have had on poets, writers, painters, actors, architects,
and vice versa—how poets and painters, for instance, have framed the
Marbles' place in art and culture. The poets Keats, Byron, and Cavafy,
as well as an aristocrat who loses his nose and his fortune, a bad
painter who commits suicide, and a general who takes his cat into
battle, are among the cast of characters. In the author’s own words, “I
am, to a certain extent, as interested in the strange stories and
people surrounding the stones as the controversy [of their removal] and
their fate.” Key for Stallings is the creative world of the Marbles,
the ways that they appear in nineteenth (and twentieth) century writing
and art, race theory and beyond, and the influence they have exerted in
our society: cultural figures, maybe even characters, in their own
right.
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