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Classical Art - A Life History from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)
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Classical Art - A Life History from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)
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How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history
in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans
come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical
art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly
illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout
provides an original history of how classical art has been
continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in
new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of
classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply
appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the
eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or
rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array
of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical
period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their
surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as
Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of
fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire,
Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English
country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum.
A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has
transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been
transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of
what classical art has meant and continues to mean.
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