‘Is Painting a Representation of Visible Things?’ Conceptual Reality in Greek Art
A Preliminary Sketch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23465401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tonio Hölscher (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Archaeology of Greece and Rome (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417099.003.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W4238359548 |
| ISBN | 9781474417099 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Recent approaches to Greek and Roman art unanimously and emphatically stress the character of images as visual and material ‘constructions’ (Bažant 1985; von den Hoff and Schmidt 2001). This concept is held by the most advanced, thoughtful and serious voices of art history, and it is applied to all kinds of figurative representation, from individual figures to multi-figured scenes, through all genres and periods of ancient art. Thus, Richard Neer sees Archaic statues as ‘signs’ to which the concept of likeness to real persons is fundamentally alien (Neer 2012: 110–12). François Lissarrague interprets scenes of a warrior’s departure on Athenian vases as non-realistic constellations of the Greek oikos (Lissarrague 1990: 35–53). Wolfgang Ehrhardt analyses the Alexander mosaic from Pompeii as a purely fictitious depiction of the historical battle between Alexander and Darius III (Ehrhardt 2008).
Ancient Greek · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Battle · Character (mathematics) · Depiction · Greek art · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Literature · Painting · Politics · Representation (politics) · Sketch · Visual arts · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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Attic red-figure vase-painters
War and Warfare in Ancient Greece
The ‘Hoplite Reform’ Revisited
Art, desire, and the body in ancient Greece
The Ancient View of Greek Art
Faces of Power
Images of War in Greece and Rome
The Problem with Dexileos
Mittelschicht und Polisbildung
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |