Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics - Couverture rigide

Stewart, Andrew

 
9780520068513: Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520068513 ISBN 13 : 9780520068513
Editeur : University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence-on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and reliefware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most famous in history. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images?

Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits--wildly divergent in character, quality, type, provenance, date, and purpose--actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted clichés that mobilize the notion "Alexander" for diverse ends and diverse audiences. Stewart discusses the portraits as studies in power and his original interpretation of them gives unprecedented fullness and shape to the idea and image called "Alexander."

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Stewart is Professor of Greek and Roman Art at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (1990).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520068513
ISBN 13 
9780520068513
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
550
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Personne responsable
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