Research Catalog

Title

Classical art : a life history from antiquity to the present / Caroline Vout.

Author

Vout, Caroline

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

ix, 359 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean.

Subject

• Art, Classical > Appreciation > History
• Sculpture, Classical > Appreciation > History
• Classical antiquities > Appreciation > History
• Art and society > History
• ART / Sculpture
• Art and society
• Sculpture, Classical > Appreciation

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-342) and index.

Contents

Setting the agenda, or putting the art into heritage -- Finding the classical in Hellenistic Greece -- Making Greek culture Roman culture -- Roman art, the building blocks of empire -- Reviving antiquity in Renaissance Italy -- European court society and the shaping of the canon -- 'Neoclassicisms' and the English country house -- Seeing anew in the nineteenth century -- The death of classical art? -- And the moral of the story.

Call Number

JQF 19-1299

ISBN

• 9780691177038
• 0691177031

LCCN

• 2017023421
• 40028233127

OCLC

987491848

Author

Vout, Caroline, author.

Title

Classical art : a life history from antiquity to the present / Caroline Vout.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Gender group: Women

Nationality/regional group: Britons

Occupational/field of activity group: Classicists

Occupational/field of activity group: University and college faculty members

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-342) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40028233127

Research Call Number

JQF 19-1299