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Monster in der frühgriechischen Kunst : die Überwindung des Unfassbaren / Lorenz Winkler-Horaček.
LIBRA NK1590.M66 W56 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winkler-Horaček, Lorenz, author.
- Series:
- Image & context ; volume 4.
- Image & context ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Monsters in art.
- Animals in art.
- Monsters--Symbolic aspects.
- Monsters.
- Animals--Symbolic aspects.
- Animals.
- Vase-painting, Corinthian--Themes, motives.
- Vase-painting, Corinthian.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 690 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In German; summary in English.
- Summary:
- The focus of this work is on the monsters (hybrid creatures) that appear in animal friezes in Greek vase painting in general and on Corinthian pottery in particular. Although these monsters are sometimes called "demons" in scholarship, they are neither contemporary demons nor Homer's daimones, but are instead figures associated with areas outside civilization: the wilderness, the depths of the sea or the earth, or the mythic lands at the borders of the known world. An analysis of animal friezes on Corinthian vases revealed a system that integrates monsters into an order that includes animals, and establishes a hierarchical structuring principle. Thus, Corinthian animal friezes can be seen as imposing a kind of order over a chaotic world of creatures characterized by their impossible, incomprehensible nature.
- Contents:
- Daimōn oder Dämon : eine Begriffsbestimmung
- Monster ohne Mythen : die Bilder
- Archaische Tierfriese : Syntax und Verhältnis zur "realen" Welt
- Tierwelt, Adel, Polis
- Fiktionale Grenzräume im frühen Griechenland
- Anhang 1 : Zur Syntax der Tierfriese in der archaischen Vasenmalerei von Korinth : die Stellung der Tiere
- Anhang 2 : Zur Syntax der Tierfriese in der archaischen Vasenmalerei von Korinth : die Stellung der Mischwesen
- Anhang 3 : Fallbespiele zur Stellung der Greifenlöwen und der geflügelten Menschenlöwen in den Tierfriesen Ostgriechenlands
- Zusammenfassung
- English summary.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's thesis--Universität Rostock, 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 639-676) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110189001
- 3110189003
- OCLC:
- 912045261
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