Screen LibraryThe image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity /
"This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously const...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-348) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107118256 1107118255 |
| Index Number: | NK4645 |
| CLC: |
I545.072 J537(545) |
| Call Number: | J537(545)/H456 |
| Contents: | Introduction: "I am Odysseus" -- 1. Smikros and Euphronios : pictorial alter ego -- 2. Archilochos, the fictional creator-protagonist, and Odysseus -- 3. Hipponax and his make-believe artists -- 4. Hephaistos in epic : analog of Odysseus and antithesis to Thersites -- 5. Pictorial subjectivity and the Shield of Achilles on the Francois vase -- 6. Frontality, self-reference, and social hierarchy : three Archaic vase-paintings -- 7. Writing and invention in the vase-painting of Euphronios and his circle -- Epilogue: Persuasion, deception, and artistry on a red-figure cup. |