Download or read book The Classical Male Figure written by Greg Fox and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 50 full color 8" x 10" frame-able prints of gorgeous male figure art from the "classical era", (roughly, from the Renaissance up until about the year 1920), this book is the perfect gift for any fan of the male nude figure in historical art. Artists such as John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Michelangelo, William Etty and many more are included, presenting some of their finest nude male artwork. While you do not need to hang and/or frame the artwork in this book, (it functions equally well as a coffee-table book to enjoy and return to for years to come), if you do choose to hang & frame some of the prints within, instructions and hints are given for how to best remove and frame the pages you choose to hang. And at this price, it is a remarkably affordable way to beautify your home or workspace with delightful, inspiring art of the male figure.
Download or read book Figures of Speech written by Gloria Ferrari and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two hundred years, thousands of ancient Greek vases have been unearthed. Yet these artifacts remain a challenge: what did the images depicted on these vases actually mean to ancient Greek viewers? In this long-awaited book, Gloria Ferrari uses Athenian vases, literary evidence, and other works of art from the Archaic and Classical periods (520-400 B.C.) to investigate what these items can tell us about the ancient Greeks—specifically, their notions of gender. Ferrari begins by developing a theoretical perspective on visual representation, arguing that artistic images give us access to how their subjects were imagined rather than to the way they really were. For instance, Ferrari's examinations of the many representations of women working wool reveal that these images constitute powerful metaphors—metaphors, she argues, which both reflect and construct Greek conceptions of the ideal woman and her ideal behavior. From this perspective, Ferrari studies a number of icons representing blameless femininity and ideal masculinity to reevaluate the rites of passage by which girls are made ready for marriage and boys become men. Representations of the nude male body in Archaic statues known as kouroi, for example, symbolize manhood itself and shed new light on the much-discussed institution of paiderastia. And, in Ferrari's hands, imagery equating maidens with arable land and buried treasure provides a fresh view of Greek ideas of matrimony. Innovative, thought-provoking, and insightful throughout, Figures of Speech is a powerful demonstration of how the study of visual images as well as texts can reshape our understanding of ancient Greek culture.
Download or read book Gender Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture written by Rosemary Barrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.
Download or read book The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture written by Richard Neer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a people fascinated with the power of sculpture to provoke wonder in beholders. Wonder, not accuracy, realism, naturalism or truth, was the supreme objective of Greek sculptors. Neer traces this way of thinking about art from the poems of Homer to the philosophy of Plato. Then, through meticulous accounts of major sculpture from around the Greek world, he shows how the demand for wonder-inducing statues gave rise to some of the greatest masterpieces of Greek art. Rewriting the history of Greek sculpture in Greek terms and restoring wonder to a sometimes dusty subject, The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the art of sculpture or the history of the ancient world.
Download or read book The History Written on the Classical Greek Body written by Robin Osborne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that history written on the basis of texts alone creates a misleading picture of classical Greece.
Download or read book Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace written by Kate Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its sombre displays were far from being the only place that people encountered antiquities. From 1854, a rival collection of classical sculpture, comprising plaster casts from major European museums and scaled down architectural features, was on show in the South London suburb of Sydenham, in the Crystal Palace which had housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the late 1850s, two million visitors were passing through the glass doors of the Sydenham Crystal Palace each year, more than twice as many as recorded at the British Museum. Many more people, and from a greater variety of social strata, saw the painted cast of the Parthenon frieze in Sydenham than the original in Bloomsbury. Utilizing an extensive variety of archival material, including diaries, scrapbooks and photographs, Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace evokes visitor experiences at Sydenham, and examines the discussion that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in modern Britain, assessing how classical art figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, class and gender, and race and imperialism.
Download or read book Art and Experience in Classical Greece written by Jerome Jordan Pollitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-03-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "delightful, readable, and scholarly. The volume is profusely and well illustrated, each art example is clearly labelled and dated, and superb supplementary references for illustrations and supplementary suggestions for further reading are added to complete the study." Choice
Download or read book The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece, presented at the Portland Art Museum October 6, 2012/January 6, 2013.
Download or read book Constructions of the Classical Body written by James I. Porter and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished international scholars examine the neglected issue of the body and its status in classical antiquity
Download or read book The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature written by David D. Leitao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolves in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of creative works, the image later comes to function also as a means to explore the boundary between the sexes.
Download or read book The Art of Man written by Firehouse Studio Publications Staff and published by . This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theartofman.net becomes a reality! This quarterly seeks to bring balance to a genre of art that overwhelmingly favors the female figure. We feature artists that are courageous enough to focus on the male figure as a significant portion of their portfolio. We bring you in-depth interviews into their thought processes, choices, struggles and creativity in a way no book on the subject can; a buffet for the connoisseur of figurative art.This journal includes interviews with five artists; Philip Shadbolt, Miriam Perez, Paul Rybarczyk, Robert Fontanelli, Jean Chaîney and Philip Hitchcock, owner of PHD Gallery. Art of Man always includes an historical article, this time focusing on Jean-Léon Gérôme by Grady Harp plus tips for art collectors by the editor, this issue focusing on eBay fraud. The journal ends with information on other publications focusing on the classical male figure and a directory of over 150 artists and their websites.
Download or read book the Young Male Figure written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eros and Adonis written by Firehouse Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eros & Adonis is a collection of art history articles first appearing in The Art of Man, issues one through twelve. This compilation focuses on classical fine art of the male figure from the ancient Greeks to artists of the twentieth century. Though today, figurative art is often dominated by the female form, digital imagery, and photography, but it was not always this way, and the evidence is here in this comprehensive collection.The volume begins with an Introduction by Grady Harp, and contains articles on Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Willian-Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Thomas Eakins, Jacques-Louis David, Guido Reni, Cornelius McCarthy, Agnolo Bronzino, Icarus, Shozo Nagano, The Orient and the Occident, Greek and Roman Sculpture, Ganymede, Wade Reynolds, The Influence of Saint Sebastian, The Influence of Apollo, William Blake, The Influence of Hercules, and Eugène Frederik Jansson
Download or read book Adam written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Man Tenth Edition written by Firehouse Publishing Staff and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theartofman.net becomes a reality! This quarterly seeks to bring balance to a genre of art that overwhelmingly favors the female figure. We feature artists that are courageous enough to focus on the male figure as a significant portion of their portfolio. We bring you in-depth interviews into their thought processes, choices, struggles and creativity in a way no book on the subject can; a buffet for the connoisseur of figurative art. Edition ten features interviews and artwork of Mel Odom, Serge Sovkov, Gonzalo Orquín, James Messana, and Anthony Cudahy. It includes an article on the influence of Saint Sebastian throughout art history, and a remembrance of artist Wade Reynolds by art historian Grady Harp. We have a peek into the MoGLA Archives and the edition concludes with a directory of 222 artists that feature the classical male figure as a large portion of their portfolios so the reader can explore more about this genre.
Download or read book The Art of Man Twelfth Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theartofman.net becomes a reality! This quarterly seeks to bring balance to a genre of art that overwhelmingly favors the female figure. We feature artists that are courageous enough to focus on the male figure as a significant portion of their portfolio. We bring you in-depth interviews into their thought processes, choices, struggles and creativity in a way no book on the subject can; a buffet for the connoisseur of figurative art. Edition twelve features interviews and artwork of Julian Hsing, Kevin Peterson, Esther Simmonds-Macadam, Francisco Cabas, and Brent Braniff. It includes an article on the art and life of Larry Stanton by Arthur Lambert, and an article about Eugène Jansson by art historian Grady Harp. We have a peek into the MoGLA Archives and the edition concludes with a directory of 240 artists that feature the classical male figure as a large portion of their portfolios so the reader can explore more about this genre.
Download or read book Not the Classical Ideal written by Beth Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vision of reality in which a pre-eminent human type was defined in opposition to non-ideal 'Others' characterized ancient Greece. In democratic Athens the social structure privileged male citizens, and women, resident aliens, and slaves were marginalized. The Persian Wars polarized the opposition of Greeks and Barbarians. This anthology provides the first investigation of the delineation of otherness across a broad spectrum of the imagery of Greek art. An international cast of authors, with methodologies ranging from traditional to avant-garde, examines manifestations of the Other in Late Archaic and Classical Greek representations that particularly interest them. The 17 chapters develop a nuanced picture of the visual criteria that denoted otherness in regard to gender, class, and ethnicity and also reveal the social and political functions of this remarkable Greek imagery. Also available in paperback (ISBN 9789004117129)
