Art and Technology: A Symposium on Classical Bronzes
Language: English
Published by Published for the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and the Dept. of Humanities, M.I.T. by M.I.T. Press, 1970
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- Title
- Art and Technology: A Symposium on Classical Bronzes
- Author
- Doeringer, Suzannah; Editor
- Publisher
- Published for the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University and the Dept. of Humanities, M.I.T. by M.I.T. Press
- Publication year
- 1970
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Worn
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262040301
- ISBN 13
- 9780262040303
- Dimensions
- Oversize
- Seller catalogs
- Ancient History, Art
Art is in intimate and continual contact with technology, writes Cyril Stanley Smith; technical examination of a work of art brings the viewer into contact with the object's background and into the shaping processes used by the artist. Arthur Steinberg points out that it is equally important to view a particular technology in its cultural context, to determine ancient industrial practices and the relation of the technology to ancient societies. The chapters in Part 1 discuss and summarize some of the most compelling problems encountered in the effort of scientists, art historians, and archaeologists to comprehend the technological context in which ancient bronzesimplements, vessels, armor, and large and small statueswere produced. Specific areas of investigation are bronze joining, chemical analysis of Greek and Roman statuary bronzes, the corrosion products of bronzes (patinas), the mechanics of corrosion, and the conservation of art objects. In a more general sense, these chapters illustrate the trend of cooperation of archaeologists with chemists, geologists, physicists, metallurgists, mineralogists, and conservators to analyze and interpret their finds.
Chapters in Part 2 are concerned with Oriental and Orientalizing bronzes. Contributors raise questions as to the transmission or diffusion of subjects, motifs, and techniques from one culture to another; how these elements were passed on, by whom, and why. Part 3 considers votive and decorative Roman and Etruscan bronzes, raising some complicated aesthetic and technological questions as to why these bronzes have been judged "second rate" adaptations of Greek prototypes. Chapters in this section reassess the bronzes in terms of their function, the market, and the workshop, suggesting that these pieces fulfilled certain specific requirements of the culture that produced them. The book's last section contains reflections on the decline, survival, and revival of ancient bronzes; why they are collected and how they may be authenticated.
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