Capturing Troy: The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art - Hardcover

Guy Michael Hedreen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472111639 ISBN 13: 9780472111633

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2002

Synopsis

Those in the field of classical art will appreciate this investigation of the most common remnant of ancient Greek society available to the modern scholar, the painted vase. Guy Hedreen discusses how the imagery on Greek vases is only sometimes used as a narrative device, and delves further into the extent to which visual imagery depends upon literary sources. With the backdrop of one of the world's earliest, and some would argue greatest stories ever told, the sacking of Troy, Hedreen brings the reader into one of the most current and persistent topics in the art world: Narrative vs. Art. Employing a wide range of stunning visual imagery to illustrate his points, this insightful original text, Capturing Troy is a valuable new contribution to the subject, accessible to the learned scholar and beginning student alike. Guy Michael Hedreen is Professor of Art, Williams College.

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Synopsis

Hedreen (art, Williams College, Massachusetts) has written a pithy study that uses the stories of the Trojan War to analyze the function of landscape and setting in Greek vase painting. Through a painstaking analysis of a largish group of scenes (depicted in high quality b&w plates), Hedreen demonstrates how the spare motifs reappear among the char

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472111639
• ISBN 13: 9780472111633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312