The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso

by Elizabeth Prettejohn, Fiachra Mac Góráin (Editor), Charles Martindale (Editor), Nora Goldschmidt (Editor)

Overview

What can modern art have to do with ancient sculpture? Surely the excitement of modern art lies in its utter repudiation of classical example? Elizabeth Prettejohn's important and revisionist new book argues otherwise: that ancient sculpture and modern art have been in constant dialogue since Johann Joachim Winckelmann invented the modern discipline of art history. It shows how ancient sculptures could inspire artists such as Rodin, Leighton or Picasso, and how modern artworks could help to interpret sculptors such as Pheidias and Praxiteles. The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture will have strong appeal to students of modern art and the classics alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848859036
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/15/2012
Series:	New Directions in Classics , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Fiachra Mac Góráin is Associate Professor of Classics at University College London, UK.

Charles Martindale is Emeritus Professor of Latin in the University of Bristol, UK. His books include Redeeming the Text (2008) and Latin Literature and the Judgement of Taste (2004) and he is, with David Hopkins, general editor of the five-volume Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (2012-).

Nora Goldschmidt is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction 1

1 The Discovery of Greek Sculpture 38

2 The Artist, Ancient and Modern 104

3 Modernism 171

Notes 257

Selected Bibliography 287

Index 291