A companion to ancient aesthetics / edited by Pierre Destrée and Penelope Murray
- Published:
- Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 533 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Destrée, Pierre and Murray, Penelope
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Festivals, Symposia, and the Performance of Greek Poetry / Penelope Murray / Pierre Destrée -- 2.Figures of the Poet in Greek Epic and Lyric / Richard P. Martin -- 3.The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World / Deborah Steiner -- 4.Poetry, Patronage, and Roman Politics / Graham Zanker -- 5.Music and Dance in Greece and Rome / Thomas Habinek -- 6.The Body, Human and Divine in Greek Sculpture / Eleonora Rocconi -- 7.Painting and Private Art Collections in Rome / Rosemary Barrow -- 8.Architecture and Society / Agnès Rouveret -- 9.Literary Criticism and the Poet's Autonomy / Catherine Saliou -- 10.Poetic Inspiration / Andrew Ford -- 11.The Canons of Style / Penelope Murray -- 12.Sense and Sensation in Music / Jeffrey Walker -- 13.Dance and Aesthetic Perception / Armand D'Angour -- 14.Greek Painting and the Challenge of Mimesis / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- 15.Ways of Looking at Greek Vases / Hariclia Brecoulaki -- 16.Displaying Sculpture in Rome / Francois Lissarrague -- 17.Perceiving Colors / Thea Ravasi -- 18.The Beauties of Architecture / M. Michela Sassi -- 19.Stylistic Landscapes / Edmund Thomas -- 20.Conceptualizing the (Visual) "Arts" / Nancy Warman -- 21.Mimesis / Michael Squire -- 22.Fiction / Paul Woodruff -- 23.Imagination / Stephen Halliwell -- 24.Beauty / Anne Sheppard -- 25.Unity, Wholeness, and Proportion / David Konstan -- 26.The Sublime / Malcolm Heath -- 27.Poikilia / James I. Porter -- 28.Wonder / Adeline Grand-Clement -- 29.Tragic Emotions / Christine Hunzinger -- 30.Laughter / Christof Rapp -- 31.Pleasure / Ralph M. Rosen -- 32.Art and Morality / Pierre Destrée -- 33.Art and Value / Elizabeth Asmis.
- Summary:
- A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics responds to, and reflects on, the arts in the ancient world. The history of Western thinking about such matters goes back to the Greeks, when the arts, in one form or another, were a central feature of public life, evaluated and discussed long before Alexander Baumgarten published his Aesthetics in 1750 and established aesthetics as a distinct philosophical discipline. Greek speculations on the nature of artistic experience have profoundly shaped our culture, and this volume explores the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world. --
The contributors take a broad view in their discussions, moving away from analysis of the classical antecedents of eighteenth-century aesthetics to discuss ancient aesthetics as a subject in its own right. The first of its kind, the volume presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media ù oral, aural, visual, and literary. The essays present an integrated perspective on the major themes of ancient aesthetics that challenges traditional demarcations and raises questions about the similarrties and differences between ancient and modern ways of thinking about the place of art in society. --Book Jacket. - Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781444337648 (cloth)
1444337645 (cloth) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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