The afterlives of Greek sculpture : interaction, transformation, and destruction / Rachel Kousser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kousser, Rachel, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture--Greece--History--To 1500.

Sculpture.

Sculpture, Greek.

Sculpture--Psychological aspects.

Sculpture--Mutilation, defacement, etc--Greece.

Art and society--Greece--History--To 1500.

Art and society.

Sculpture--Mutilation, defacement, etc.

History.

Greece.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 26 cDF

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture" is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on archaeological and textual sources to analyze the later histories of these sculptures, reconstructing the processes of damage and reparation that characterized the lives of Greek images. Using an approach informed by anthropology and iconoclasm studies, Kousser describes how damage to sculptures took place within a broader cultural context. She also tracks the development of an anti-iconoclastic discourse in Hellenic society from the Persian wars to the death of Cleopatra. Her study offers a fresh perspective on the role of the image in ancient Greece. It also sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras.

Contents:

Part I: The Afterlives of Greek Sculptures

Part II: Barbaric, Deviant, and Un-Hellenic: Damage to Sculptures and Its Commemoration, 480 BCE-30 BCE

Part III. Concluding Material.

Dangerous afterlives: the Greek use of "voodoo dolls"

Use and abuse: toward an ontology of sculpture in ancient Greece

"Barbaric" interactions: the Persian Invasion and its commemoration in early classical Greece

Deviant interactions: the mutilation of the herms, oligarchy, and social deviance in the Peloponnesian War Era

Collateral damage: injury, reuse, and restoration of funerary monuments in teh late classical to early Hellenistic kerameikos

State-Sanctioned violence: altering, warehousing, and destroying leaders' portraits in the Hellenistic era

Conclusion: the afterlives of Greek sculptures in the Roman and early Christian eras.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-289) and index.

ISBN:

9781107040724

1107040728

OCLC:

955313079