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Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691094888
ISBN-13
9780691094885
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2359012
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Images in Mind : Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought
Subject
Ancient / Greece, Ancient & Classical, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
[A] comprehensive, richly documented study. . . . Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing. . . . Informative and satisfying., "Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning. . . . Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work."-- Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology, "Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning. . . . Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work." --Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology, Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning. . . . Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work., "[A] comprehensive, richly documented study. . . . Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing. . . . Informative and satisfying." -- Choice, Stone carving is a reductive technique: the sculptor is always involved in the process of removing and discarding material from the original block to reveal the image within. Steiner has done exactly the opposite: she has provided much more material for our consideration than she promised at the beginning. . . . Undoubtedly the strongest aspect of this book is the continuing discussion of mimesis and the often ambiguous relation of perceived form to reality, a thread that is interwoven throughout the work. -- Paul Rehak, American Journal of Philology, [A] comprehensive, richly documented study. . . . Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing. . . . Informative and satisfying. -- Choice, "[A] comprehensive, richly documented study. . . . Steiner analyzes in detail the role of images in communicating love, desire, and longing. . . . Informative and satisfying."-- Choice
Illustrated
Yes
Synopsis
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., 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
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