Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present Tapa dura -

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Princeton University Press, May 2018. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good.

Princeton University Press. Used - Very Good. 2018. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf wear; jacket spine lightly sunned. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Art History).

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018. Cloth, ix, 359 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as 'classical' and as 'art'? What does 'classical art' mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future.0What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both… Leer más

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Princeton University Press, 2018. Hardcover. New/New. New oversized hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. (8.25 x 1.5 x 10.5 inches) Includes photos, notes, bibliography, and index. 376 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman… Leer más

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