Understanding Greek sculpture : ancient meanings, modern readings
by Spivey, Nigel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- NF/VG, dust jacket shows very slight rubbing.
- ISBN 10
- 0500237107
- ISBN 13
- 9780500237106
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About This Item
New York, New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc, 1996. Hardcover. NF/VG, dust jacket shows very slight rubbing.. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt decoration and titles, green dust jacket with color illustration. 240 pp. 142 B/W illustrations. Many pieces of Greek sculpture are very familiar to us - the Discobolus, the Venus de Milo and the Parthenon frieze, for instance - but our appreciation of them as "works of art," enshrined in museums, is far removed from the ways in which the ancient Greeks saw and perceived them. To comprehend why Greek sculpture looks as it does we have to recreate the conditions of its production and consider those who commissioned, used and viewed it as much as the sculptors whom we traditionally associate with its creation. --From the jacket.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130305
- Title
- Understanding Greek sculpture : ancient meanings, modern readings
- Author
- Spivey, Nigel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - NF/VG, dust jacket shows very slight rubbing.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0500237107
- ISBN 13
- 9780500237106
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Classical Art/Antiquities ; Greek sculpture ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classical Art/Antiquities;
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