Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 646 g
Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought
Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 646 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-09488-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press
In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.''Deborah Tarn Steiner considers how Greek authors used images to ponder the relation of a copy to an original and of external appearance to inner reality. For these writers, a sculpture could straddle life and death, encode desire, or occasion reflection on their own act of producing a text. Many of the same sources also reveal how thinking about statues was reflected in the objects' everyday treatment. Viewing representations of gods and heroes as vessels hosting a living force, worshippers ritually washed, clothed, and fed them in order to elicit the numinous presence within.By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social--rather than purely aesthetic--study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists.
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List of Illustrations vii
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
List of Abbreviations xvii
CHAPTER ONE: Replacement and Replication 3
Replacing the Absent 5
Replication and Its Limits 19
Developments in Late Archaic and Classical Statuary 26
Works of Art in Fiftb-Century Texts 44
Late Classical Images and the Platonic Account 56
CHAPTER TWO: Inside and Out 79
Representing Divinity 80
Cult Activities 105
Vacant or Full? 120
CHAPTER THREE: The Quick and the Dead 135
Inanimate Images and the Dead 136
Divine Motion and Sight 156
CHAPTER FOUR: For Love of a Statue 185
Image Love in Literary Accounts 186
Real-World Viewing 207
CHAPTER FIVE: The Image in the Text 251
The Funerary Monument 252
Victory Statues 259
Honorific Statues and the Encomiastic Address 265
Imaging the Word 281
EPILOGUE: lucian's Retrospective 295
Illustrations 307
Bibliography 329
Index of Passages Cited 343
Subject Index 353
