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The image of the artist in archaic and classical Greece : art, poetry, and subjectivity

Hedreen, Guy Michael, 1958- author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• 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. / Greece Intellectual life To 146 B.C.
• ISBN: 9781107118256, 1107118255

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NK4645.H35 2016	1	BOOK	ARTS