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Rhetoric and innovation in Hellenistic art / Kristen Seaman, University of Oregon.
LIBRA N5633 .S435 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seaman, Kristen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Hellenistic--Themes, motives.
- Art, Hellenistic.
- Art and rhetoric--Mediterranean Region.
- Art and rhetoric.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 186 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Hellenistic artworks are celebrated for innovations such as narrative, characterization, and description. The most striking examples are works associated with the Hellenistic courts. Their revolutionary appearance is usually attributed to Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East, the start of the Hellenistic kingdoms, and Greek-Eastern interactions. In Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art, Kristin Seaman offers a new approach to Hellenistic art by investigating an internal development in Greek cultural production, notably, advances in rhetoric. Rhetorical education taught kings, artists, and courtiers how to be Greek, giving them a common intellectual and cultural background from which they approached art. Seaman explores how rhetorical techniques helped artists and their royal patrons construct Hellenism through their innovative art in the scholarly atmospheres of Pergamon and Alexandria. Drawing upon artistic, literary, and historical evidence, this interdisciplinary study will be interest to students and scholars in art and archaeology, Classics, and ancient history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Rhetoric, Innovation, and the Courts
- 2. Narrative in the Telephos Frieze
- 3. Personification in the Archelaos Relief
- 4. Ekphrasis in Sosos's Unswept Room Mosaic
- 5. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of California, Berkeley, 2009) under the title: Rhetoric and innovation in the art of the Hellenistic courts.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Seaman, Kristen Rhetoric and innovation in Hellenistic art
- ISBN:
- 9781108490917
- 1108490913
- 9781108796668
- 1108796664
- OCLC:
- 1113880763
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