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Image and myth a history of pictorial narration in Greek art

Title
Image and myth [electronic resource] : a history of pictorial narration in Greek art / Luca Giuliani ; translated by Joseph O'Donnell.
Author
Giuliani, Luca.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]

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Additional Authors
O'Donnell, Joseph, 1960 September 4-
Description
1 online resource (xix, 335 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Bild und Mythos. English (Online)
Alternative Title
Bild und Mythos.
Subject
  • Art, Greek > Themes, motives
  • Narrative art > Greece
  • Mythology, Greek, in art
  • Vase-painting, Greek
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and indexes.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
The pictorial deluge and the study of visual culture -- Images and texts compared: a diagnosis of contrasts. Revisiting Lessing's Laocoon -- Taking Lessing beyond Lessing -- Images of the world: the eighth century. The shield of Achilles: description and narration -- Fighting lions -- Seafarer's farewell -- Siamese twins -- Aristocratic life and aristocratic death -- Warriors to sea -- The advent of pictorial narratives in the seventh century. The horse on wheels -- Polyphemos, the defenseless giant -- Epic or folktale? -- Playing with writing in the eighth, seventh, and sixth enturies. Painters learn to write -- Name inscriptions confirming narrative content -- Name inscriptions generating narrative content -- Everyman's armor: Achilles' armor -- Kleitias and the Muses -- Directing the gaze in the sixth and fifth centuries. Polyphemos again: the synchronization of narrative images -- Hektor's corpse: the surprise at dinner -- The hero and the sorceress: moments of suspense -- The murder of Priam: unparalleled barbarity -- The fall of Troy: combining multiple scenes -- Victor and vanquished: the limits of narration and the possibilities of description -- Images in the pull of text: from the fifth to the fourth century. Achilles' wrath and Achilles' lyre -- From oraliture to literature: the emergence of a culture of reading -- Hastening Furies: sleeping Furies -- Pictures for readers: the birth of the illustration in the second century. Splendor and misery of an Odyssey picture cycle -- The triumph of texts and the fidelity of images -- Looking back: pitfalls and nodes.
LCCN
2012038002
OCLC
ssj0000886211
Author
Giuliani, Luca.
Title
Image and myth [electronic resource] : a history of pictorial narration in Greek art / Luca Giuliani ; translated by Joseph O'Donnell.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and indexes.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
O'Donnell, Joseph, 1960 September 4-
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