The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity / Guy Hedreen (Williams College, MA).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vase-painting, Greek--History.

Vase-painting, Greek.

Vase-painting, Greek--Themes, motives.

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Greek poetry--Themes, motives.

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

Art and literature.

Subjectivity in art.

Subjectivity in literature.

Arts, Greek--History.

Arts, Greek.

Greece--Intellectual life--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 364 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Image of the Artist in Archaic & Classical Greece

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-45237-9

1-316-45525-4

1-316-45573-4

1-316-45765-6

1-316-45621-8

1-316-45861-X

1-316-33939-4