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Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato (Hardcover)
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Sculpture, weaving, and the body in Plato (Hardcover)
Series: MythosEikonPoiesis
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Plato’s Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the
creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge. The maker
bestows order on sensible things and imitates the world of the
intellect by using the Forms as models. While the creation-myth of
the Timaeus seems unparalleled, this book argues that it is not the
first of Plato’s dialogues to use artistic language to articulate
the relationship of the objects of the material world to the world
of the intellect. The book adopts an interpretative angle that is
sensitive to the visual and art-historical developments of
Classical Athens to argue that sculpture, revolutionized by the
advent of the lost-wax technique for the production of bronze
statues, lies at the heart of Plato’s conception of the relation
of the human soul and body to the Forms. It shows that, despite the
severe criticism of mimēsis in the Republic, Plato’s use of
artistic language rests on a positive model of mimēsis. Plato was
in fact engaged in a constructive dialogue with material culture
and he found in the technical processes and the cultural semantics
of sculpture and of the art of weaving a valuable way to
conceptualise and communicate complex ideas about humans’
relation to the Forms.
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