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The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity
- Title
- The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity / Guy Hedreen, Williams College, MA.
- Author
- Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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Details
- Description
- xv, 364 pages; 27 cm
- 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"--
- Subject
- To 1500
- Vase-painting, Greek > History
- Vase-painting, Greek > Themes, motives
- Greek poetry > History and criticism
- Greek poetry > Themes, motives
- Art and literature > Greece > History > To 1500
- Subjectivity in art
- Subjectivity in literature
- Arts, Greek > History
- Art and literature
- Arts, Greek
- Greek poetry
- Intellectual life
- Vase-painting, Greek
- Greece > Intellectual life > To 146 B.C
- Greece
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-348) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQF 16-403
- ISBN
- 9781107118256
- 1107118255
- LCCN
- 2015027414
- OCLC
- 913829609
- Author
- Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958- author.
- Title
- The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity / Guy Hedreen, Williams College, MA.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-348) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Research Call Number
- JQF 16-403