Classical art and the cultures of Greece and Rome /

Classical art and the cultures of Greece and Rome / John Onians.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Onians, John, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1999]
Subjects:
Art, Classical.
Art and society > Greece.
Art and society > Rome.
Table of Contents:
  • The Culture of the Greek Workshop
  • Man as Raw Material
  • The Body and Its Tools
  • Military and Civil Crafts
  • Greek Art and the Culture of Conflict
  • The General as Craftsman and the Soldier as Artefact
  • The Necessity of the Phalanx
  • The Iliad: Women at Home, Men at War
  • War and Art: The 'Military' Style of Pottery
  • War and Art: Phalanx and Temple
  • War and Philosophy: Kosmos and Harmonia
  • War and Philosophy: The First 'Mathematicians'
  • War, Mathematics and Art: The 'Square' Man
  • Mathematical Art versus the Mathematical Army
  • Plato and the Mathematical Guards
  • The Power of Women and the Aesthetics of Peace
  • Greek Art and the Culture of Competition
  • Work and Competition
  • Competition, Imitation and Improvement
  • Competition: Its Organisation and Regulation
  • Competition in Art
  • Competition and the Rise of Classical Art
  • Competition and Continuous Change
  • The Intellectual Marketplace: Competitive Models
  • The Intellectual Marketplace: Plato's Paradigm
  • Isocrates and the Theory of Classical Culture
  • Hellenistic Art and the Culture of Character
  • Alexander: Paradigmatic Breaker of the Paradigm
  • Alexander and Art
  • Responses to the Paradigm
  • The 'Modern' Artist
  • 'Modern' Art
  • The Patron, the Artist, the Model and the Viewer
  • From the Viewer as Hero to the Viewer as Victim
  • Man Caught in His Own Net
  • Paradigms Packaged: Education and the Copy
  • Athens, the Capital of Packaging
  • Roman Art and the Culture of Memory
  • The Instruments of Success
  • Augury and Mapping.
  • Art and Memory
  • Money, Monuments and Signs
  • Monuments and Memory
  • Vespasian's Architectural Memory System
  • Money and Monuments in the Later Empire
  • Memorials of the Dead
  • Christianity: A Contract for the After-life
  • The Sign of the Cross
  • Rome and the Culture of Imagination
  • Beyond Reason
  • Metamorphosis and the Magic of Augustus
  • Metamorphosis of Nature
  • Metamorphosis and the History of Art
  • Metamorphosis of Culture
  • Roman Style as the Style of Transformation
  • The Empire of the Imagination
  • Rhetoric and the Education of the Imagination
  • The Educated Imagination and the Work of Art
  • Imagination and the Psychology of Perception
  • From Images in Clouds to Pictures in Marble
  • The Rise of the Imagination and Material Decline
  • Dreams and Visions; Conversion and Transubstantiation
  • The Culture of the Christian Church
  • Closing the Schools
  • The Christian and the External World
  • The Christian and the Internal World
  • Christian Building Blocks.

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