The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture (Paperback)

In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders. Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism, or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. Neer traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato. Then, through meticulous accounts of major sculpture from around the Greek world, he shows how the demand for wonder-inducing statues gave rise to some of the greatest masterpieces of Greek art.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Richard Neer
Dimensions:	278 x 216 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-57064-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
LSN:	0-226-57064-9
Barcode:	9780226570648

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