Research Catalog

Title

Grief made marble : funerary sculpture in classical Athens / Seth Estrin.

Author

Estrin, Seth

Publication

• New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Description

ix, 230 pages : illustrations, map; 28 cm

Summary

"In this lyrically written and beautifully illustrated study, Seth Estrin probes the emotional effects of one of the largest and most important categories of Greek sculpture: the funerary monuments of Classical Athens. Instead of simply documenting experiences of bereavement, he demonstrates that funerary monuments played a vital role in giving grief visual and material presence, employing the subtle effects of relief sculpture to make private experiences of loss socially meaningful to others. By identifying the deaths they marked as worthy of grief, funerary monuments mobilized fundamental questions about sculptural form and pictorial recognition to political ends, instrumentalizing the emotional dimensions of sculpture as a means to construct and uphold social hierarchies. Grounded in careful study of numerous monuments, new readings of their accompanying epigrams and ancient literary sources, and close consideration of both ancient and modern theories of emotion, Grief Made Marble makes a landmark contribution not only to the study of Greek sculpture, but to our broader understanding of the relationship between art and emotion in antiquity."--

Subject

• To 1500
• Sepulchral monuments > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500
• Sculpture, Greek > Greece > Athens > Themes, motives
• Grief in art
• Antiquities
• Sculpture, Greek
• Sepulchral monuments
• Athens (Greece) > Antiquities
• Greece > Athens

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.

Contents

Part I : the statue and the corpse. Chapter 1 : The strigil -- Chapter 2 : The name -- Chapter 3 : Pity -- Coda : Eupheros revisited -- Part II : forms of grief. Chapter 4 : Recognition and reunion -- Chapter 5 : Enslaved bodies -- Chapter 6 : Sirens -- Coda : A system of images.

Call Number

JQF 24-52

ISBN

• 9780300269369
• 0300269366

LCCN

2023935202

OCLC

1375548964

Author

Estrin, Seth, author.

Title

Grief made marble : funerary sculpture in classical Athens / Seth Estrin.

Publisher

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-200) and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Research Call Number

JQF 24-52