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Author Stewart, Andrew F., author

Title Classical Greece and the birth of Western art / Andrew Stewart
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description xviii, 358 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Contents Introduction : Classical, classic, the classics, and classicism -- Archaic into classical : the Greek revolution -- The first generation -- The classical moment -- Interlude : city, household, and individual in classical Greece -- The great convulsion -- The fourth century : an age of the individual? -- The shadow of Macedonia
Summary Andrew Stewart examines Greek architecture, painting, and sculpture of the fifth and fourth centuries BC in relation to the great political, social, cultural, and intellectual issues of the period and asks questions about what the 'Classical Revolution' in Greek art was and what its contexts, aims and achievements were
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-345) and index
Subject Art, Ancient -- Greece.
Art, Greek.
SUBJECT Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
LC no. 2007039501
ISBN 9780521853217
0521853214
9780521618359
0521618355