Involved Spectatorship in Archaic Greek Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9308196 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guy Hedreen (0000-0001-6762-5185, Williams College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-246 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Art History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-6790 • E-ISSN: 1467-8365 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2007.00539.x |
| OpenAlex | W2005629195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 6 |
It is argued that models of spectatorship developed by Alois Riegl and Richard Wollheim offer a productive means of understanding how the Archaic Greek eye cup works. Eye cups represent the faces of particular mythological creatures who expect to see their mythical counterparts in the space occupied by spectators. The decoration of the cups is structured so as to invite the beholder to enter imaginatively into the Dionysiac world. Some representations of silens shown with frontal faces invite a similar response. A significant amount of Archaic poetry experienced, like the vases, in symposia also induced symposiasts temporarily to adopt fictional or mythical personae. As Nietzsche observed in The Birth of Tragedy , a comparable form of involved spectatorship is also at the heart of early Greek drama. A common aesthetic conception of involved spectatorship manifested itself concretely in several different media or cultural forms in late Archaic Greece
Aesthetics · Ancient Greek · Archaeology · Art · Creatures · Drama · Greek mythology · Greek tragedy · Literature · Mythology · Natural (archaeology · Poetry · Tragedy (event · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |