Rhetoric and innovation in Hellenistic art / Kristen Seaman.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 186 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : 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, Kristen 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 of interest to students and scholars in art and archaeology, Classics, and ancient history.

Contents:

Rhetoric, innovation, and the courts

Narrative in the Telephos frieze

Personification in the Archelaos relief

Ekphrasis in Sosos's Unswept room mosaic.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-85156-8

1-108-85920-8

1-108-86135-0