Rhetoric and innovation in Hellenistic art /
"Hellenistic artworks are celebrated for innovations such as narrative, characterization, and description. The most striking examples are works associated with the Hellenistic courts. Their revolutionary appearance is usually attributed to Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East, t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Canbridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "Hellenistic artworks are celebrated for innovations such as narrative, characterization, and description. The most striking examples are works associated with the Hellenistic courts. Their revolutionary appearance is usually attributed to Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East, the start of the Hellenistic kingdoms, and Greek-Eastern interactions. In Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art, Kristin Seaman offers a new approach to Hellenistic art by investigating an internal development in Greek cultural production, notably, advances in rhetoric. Rhetorical education taught kings, artists, and courtiers how to be Greek, giving them a common intellectual and cultural background from which they approached art. Seaman explores how rhetorical techniques helped artists and their royal patrons construct Hellenism through their innovative art in the scholarly atmospheres of Pergamon and Alexandria. Drawing upon artistic, literary, and historical evidence, this interdisciplinary study will be interest to students and scholars in art and archaeology, Classics, and ancient history"-- |
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| Item Description: | Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of California, Berkeley, 2009) under the title: Rhetoric and innovation in the art of the Hellenistic courts. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108490917 1108490913 9781108796668 1108796664 |