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Author | : Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004232826 |
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How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the ‘value’ of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the ‘life without the Muses’ to ‘the Sublime’, and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics. Aesthetic value in classical antiquity should be of interest to classicists, cultural and art historians, and philosophers.
Author | : Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, Classical |
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How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the 'value' of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates from a variety of perspectives aesthetic value in classical antiquity. The essays explore not only the evaluative concepts and terms applied to the arts, but also the social and cultural ideologies of aesthetic value itself. Seventeen chapters range from the 'life without the Muses' to 'the Sublime', and from philosophical views to middle-brow and popular aesthetics
Author | : Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2012-09-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004231676 |
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Thinking about sensory experiences and evaluating human artifacts is an important part of Western European cultural and intellectual history. This book investigates from different perspectives the origins of this practice and the rich discourse of aesthetic value in classical antiquity.
Author | : Ineke Sluiter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2009-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9047443144 |
Download KAKOS, Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fourth in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical Antiquity, this volume examines the negative foils, the anti-values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and calibrated in Classical Antiquity. Eighteen chapters address this theme from different perspectives –historical, literary, legal and philosophical. What makes someone into a prototypically ‘bad’ citizen? Or an abomination of a scholar? What is the relationship between ugliness and value? How do icons of sexual perversion, monstruous emperors and detestable habits function in philosophical and rhetorical prose? The book illuminates the many rhetorical manifestations of the concept of ‘badness’ in classical antiquity in a variety of domains.
Author | : James I. Porter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781316630259 |
Download The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth-century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Greek aesthetics, he argues, originated in an attention to the senses and to matter as opposed to the formalism and idealism that were enshrined by Plato and Aristotle and through whose lens most subsequent views of ancient art and aesthetics have typically been filtered. Treating aesthetics in this way can help us reveal the commonly shared basis of the diverse arts of antiquity. Reorienting our view of the ancient vocabularies of art and experience around matter and sensation, this book dramatically changes how we look upon the ancient achievements in these same areas.
Author | : Ralph Rosen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9047409183 |
Download City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches—archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each.
Author | : Pierre Destrée |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2015-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119009774 |
Download A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media—oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating literary, oral, aural, and visual arts together in a single volume Presents an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics which challenges traditional demarcations Raises questions about the similarities and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society
Author | : William Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2022-02-10 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0192646222 |
Download The Living Death of Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in different media and periods, focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the aftermath of Winckelmann's writing, John Flaxman's engraved scenes from the Iliad and the sculptors Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen reinterpreted ancient prototypes or invented new ones. Earlier and later versions of this aesthetic in the ancient Greek Anacreontea, the French Parnassian poets and Erik Satie's Socrate, manifest its character in different media and periods. Looking with a sympathetic eye on the original aspirations of the neoclassical aesthetic and its forward-looking potential, Fitzgerald describes how it can tip over into the vacancy or kitsch through which a 'remaindered' antiquity lingers in our minds and environments. This book asks how the neoclassical value of simplicity serves to conjure up an epiphanic antiquity, and how whiteness, in both its literal and its metaphorical forms, acts as the 'logo' of neoclassical antiquity, and functions aesthetically in a variety of media. In the context of the waning of a neoclassically idealized antiquity, Fitzgerald describes the new contents produced by its asymptotic approach to meaninglessness, and how the antiquity that it imagined both is and is not with us.
Author | : Oleg V. Bychkov |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052154792X |
Download Greek and Roman Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An anthology of works commenting on the perception of beauty in art, structure and style in literature, and aesthetic judgement.
Author | : Jonas Grethlein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108136079 |
Download Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this bold book, Jonas Grethlein proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. Ancient material, he argues, has the capacity to challenge and re-orientate current debates. Comparisons with modern art and literature help to balance the historicism of classical scholarship with transcultural theoretical critique. Grethlein discusses ancient narratives and pictures in order to explore the nature of aesthetic experience. While our responses to both narratives and pictures are vicarious, the 'as-if' on which they are premised is specifically shaped by the form of the representation. Form emerges as a key to how narratives and pictures constitute an important means of engaging with experience. Combining theoretical reflections with close readings, this book will appeal to art historians as well as to textual scholars.