The Art of Greece, 1400-31 B.C. Sources and documents. (Sources & Documents in the History of Art Series.)

Pollitt, J. J.

PRENTICE/HALL

The Ancient View of Greek Art: Criticism, History, and Terminology (Yale Russian and East European Studies)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

What did the ancient Greeks think about their own art? J.J. Pollitt attempts to answer this question by studying the critical terminology of the ancient Greeks―the terms they used to describe and evaluate sculpture, painting, and architecture.
Although Greeks and Romans with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests―including artists, philosophers, rhetoricians, historians, and guidebook writers―wrote about art in antiquity, very few of their works have survived. Mr. Pollitt has therefore had to draw largely on works of authors who, while discussing some other subject, make passing references to art for the purpose of analogy or illustration. By carefully assembling and organizing these fragments, he presents a coherent view of art criticism in ancient Greece.
This study is divided into two parts. The first part provides a general history of Greek art criticism and its sources. The second is an extensive glossary which collects, translates, and analyzes passages from Greek and Latin authors in which important critical terms are used. The book can therefore be used by art historians and classicists as both a scholarly text and an important work of reference.

A comprehensive look at ancient sculptures, wall paintings, vases, and more depicting the elderly in Greek and Roman society\nSome of the most vivid portraits in ancient art depict older members of society. In marble and bronze sculptures, on coins and painted vases, and in wall paintings and mosaics, elderly men and women are shown with the telltale signs of old age: wrinkles, white hair, sagging jowls, and stooped postures. This publication examines more than 300 of these vivid images to reveal perceptions—both positive and negative—about aging and the aged in Greek and Roman society. Seven chapters explore medium and form—including Greek grave reliefs, marble grave monuments in Roman Africa, and Roman sarcophagi—as well as subjects, from priests and priestesses to ancient kings of Athens, old gods, and satyrs. Grounded in the analysis of art, contemporary literature, and the archaeological record, this comprehensive volume is the first in English to explore how old age was presented in art from antiquity.\nDistributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

Old Age in Greek and Roman Art

Matheson, Susan B.

Yale University Art Gallery

This book is a companion volume to Professor Pollitt's The Art of Rome: Sources and Documents (CUP, 1983). An authoritative and reliable sourcebook, The Art of Ancient Greece contains a comprehensive collection in translation of ancient literary evidence relating to Greek sculpture, painting, architecture, and the decorative arts. The material is presented in a way which makes this important evidence available to students who are not specialists in the Classical languages or Classical archaeology. Accompanying the author's translations of a wide selection of Greek and Latin texts is an accessible, substantial bibliography, as well as an introduction, and explanatory commentary.

The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents

Cambridge University Press

Missing in Heaven

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wheaton, Robert L.

Mystery

AuthorHouse

1st Book Library

Unquiet Spirits

In the year 1886 a newspaper in Massachusetts publishes a damaging story about a prominent industrialist who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate, and he sues the paper for libel. As a lawyer and a private investigator begin to look into case, they discover, with surprise and perplexity, that the charges against the candidate are alleged to have a supernatural origin. Their investigation soon becomes enmeshed not only in legal maneuvering but also in the ambiguities of spiritualism, both of which ultimately converge in a climactic trial.

Literature & Fiction

Xlibris, Corp.

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