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Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics Volume 11 Hardcover - 1994

by Andrew Stewart


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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 clichs 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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Ancient texts about Alexander are both few and many.

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There is no more evocative Greek portrait type than that of Alexander the Great. By exploring its potency and development in antiquity . . . Stewart has made an impressive demonstration of the value of this broader approach to a traditional art-historical subject.--Sir John Boardman, Ashmolean Museum

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  • Title Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics Volume 11
  • Author Andrew Stewart
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 550
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date January 24, 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780520068513 / 0520068513
  • Weight 3.1 lbs (1.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.1 x 7.3 x 2 in (25.65 x 18.54 x 5.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Greece - Politics and government - To 146 B.C, Alexander - Art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92010205
  • Dewey Decimal Code 938.07

About the author

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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