The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso - Couverture souple

Prettejohn, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848859031 ISBN 13 : 9781848859036

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2012

Synopsis

The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture What can modern art have to do with ancient sculpture? Surely the excitement of modern art lies in its repudiation of classical example? Elizabeth Prettejohn's important and revisionist new book argues otherwise: that ancient sculpture and modern art have been in constant dialogue since Johann Joachim Winckelmann invented art history. Full description

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Never less than persuasive,in the subtlety and accessibility of its visual or verbal analyses,the book includes revelatory ideas on almost every page.

Jason Edwards, Reader in the History of Art, University of York

This is a wonderful book. It commands, with enviable ease, both ancient and modern data, and moves seamlessly and to excellent effect between evocative description and theoretical criticism. This is a book which any graduate student starting to work on ancient art will in future have to read. It is fundamentally enlightening about the way in which sculpture has been studied -and about what it is to study sculpture. It is certainly a book that the exhibition-going public and the serious visitor to the British Museum (or indeed to English country houses with classical sculpture collections) ought to read as well.It manages to be repeatedly eye-opening.

Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge --Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge

Présentation de l'éditeur :

What can modern art have to do with ancient sculpture? Surely the excitement of modern art lies in its utter repudiation of classical example? Elizabeth Prettejohn s important and revisionist new book argues otherwise: that ancient sculpture and modern art have been in constant dialogue since Johann Joachim Winckelmann invented the modern discipline of art history. It shows how ancient sculptures could inspire artists such as Rodin, Leighton or Picasso, and how modern artworks could help to interpret sculptors such as Pheidias and Praxiteles. The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture will have strong appeal to students of modern art and the classics alike.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1848859031
• ISBN 13: 9781848859036
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320