Defining beauty : the body in ancient Greek art / Ian Jenkins with Celeste Farge and Victoria Turner.
Publisher: London : The British Museum Press, 2015Description: 1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780714122878
- 0714122874
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | CGLAS Library | Yellow | 709.38 JEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 08027 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the British Museum, 26th March-5th July 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-247) and index.
Introduction / Neil MacGregor
The human body in Greek art and thought / Ian Jenkins
The life of ancient statues / Vinzenz Brinkmann
The Greek body beautiful and the origins of European Romanticism / Matthew Bell
The shock of the new : the reception of the Parthenon sculptures in nineteenth-century Europe / Athena S. Leoussi
Encounters -- Body colour -- Men like gods -- Giving form to thought -- Rites of passage -- Love and desire -- Beauty and the beast -- Character and realism -- The Greek body goes east -- The shock of the new.