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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "I am Odysseus" -- 1. Smikros and Euphronios : pictorial alter ego -- 2. Archilochos, the fictional creator-protagonist, and Odysseus -- 3. Hipponax and his make-believe artists -- 4. Hephaistos in epic : analog of Odysseus and antithesis to Thersites -- 5. Pictorial subjectivity and the Shield of Achilles on the Francois vase -- 6. Frontality, self-reference, and social hierarchy : three Archaic vase-paintings -- 7. Writing and invention in the vase-painting of Euphronios and his circle -- Epilogue: Persuasion, deception, and artistry on a red-figure cup. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Vase-painting, Greek -- History.
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Vase-painting, Greek. |
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History. |
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Vase-painting, Greek -- Themes, motives.
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Vase-painting, Greek -- Themes, motives. |
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Greek poetry -- History and criticism.
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Greek poetry. |
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Greek poetry -- Themes, motives.
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Greek poetry -- Themes, motives. |
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Art and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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Art and literature. |
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Greece. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Subjectivity in art.
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Subjectivity in art. |
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Subjectivity in literature. |
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Arts, Greek -- History.
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Arts, Greek. |
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Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958- Image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece 9781107118256 (DLC) 2015027414 (OCoLC)913829609 |
| ISBN |
9781316458617 (electronic book) |
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131645861X (electronic book) |
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9781316457658 |
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1316457656 |
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9781107118256 |
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1107118255 |
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9781107543393 (paperback) |
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1107543398 (paperback) |
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9781316339398 (electronic book) |
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1316339394 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
40025727845 |
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