Title The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity / Guy Hedreen (Williams College, MA)

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource 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 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 Notes English Print version record Subject Vase-painting, Greek -- History Vase-painting, Greek -- Themes, motives Greek poetry -- History and criticism Greek poetry -- Themes, motives Art and literature -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 Subjectivity in art. Subjectivity in literature. Arts, Greek -- History ART -- Ceramics. CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Pottery & Ceramics. Art and literature Arts, Greek Greek poetry Greek poetry -- Themes, motives Intellectual life Subjectivity in art Subjectivity in literature Vase-painting, Greek Vase-painting, Greek -- Themes, motives SUBJECT Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000672 Subject Greece Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316458617 131645861X 9781316457658 1316457656 9781107543393 1107543398 9781316339398 1316339394

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