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Hellenomania (Paperback)
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Hellenomania (Paperback)
Series: British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
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Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a
wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern
reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices
ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume design,
painting, sculpture, cinema, and the performing arts. It examines
both canonical and less familiar responses to both real and
imagined Greek antiquities from the seventeenth century to the
present, across various national contexts. Encompassing examples
from Inigo Jones to the contemporary art exhibition documenta 14,
and from Thessaloniki and Delphi to Nashville, the contributions
examine attempted reconstructions of an 'authentic' ancient Greece
alongside imaginative and utopian efforts to revive the Greek
spirit using modern technologies, new media, and experimental
practices of the body. Also explored are the political resonances
of Hellenomaniac fascinations, and tensions within them between the
ideal and the real, the past, present, and future. Part I examines
the sources and derivations of Hellenomania from the Baroque and
pre-Romantic periods to the early twentieth century. While covering
more canonical material than the following sections, it also casts
spotlights on less familiar figures and sets the scene for the
illustrations of successive waves of Hellenomania explored in
subsequent chapters. Part II focuses on responses, uses, and
appropriations of ancient Greek material culture in the built
environment-mostly architecture-but also extends to painting and
even gymnastics; it examines in particular how a certain
idealisation of ancient Greek architecture affected its modern
applications. Part III explores challenges to the idealisation of
ancient Greece, through the transformative power of colour,
movement, and of reliving the past in the present human body,
especially female. Part IV looks at how the fascination with the
material culture of ancient Greece can move beyond the obsession
with Greece and Greekness.
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