Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece: A Preliminary Study - Hardcover

Métraux, Guy P.R.

 
9780773512313: Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece: A Preliminary Study
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0773512314 ISBN 13: 9780773512313
Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995

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Exploring this interplay, Guy Metraux shows how the depiction of physiological processes gave statues and reliefs their animating force and how many medical and philosophical speculations about the body were derived from depictions in art. He examines works such as the Omphalos Apollo, the relief of the Girl with Doves from Paros, and the recently discovered two bronze warriors from Riace, paying particular attention to developments in the depiction of breathing, blood vessels, and facial expression, to attempts to show actual or potential motion, and to the invention of contrapposto (asymmetry of stance). Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece is a fascinating examination of the interaction between art and ideas in Greek intellectual life.

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Guy P. R. Metraux is chair and professor of visual arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University.

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During the early classical period Greek sculpture changed radically, becoming much more lifelike. At the same time physicians such as Hippocrates developed new ideas about human life and health, and philosophers rethought their attitudes about nature. Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece is an investigation of the interplay of sculptors, physicians, and philosophers at a time crucial to the development of classical art. Exploring this interplay, Guy Metraux shows how the depiction of physiological processes gave statues and reliefs their animating force and how many medical and philosophical speculations about the body were derived from depictions in art. He examines works such as the Omphalos Apollo, the relief of the Girl with Doves from Paros, and the two recently discovered bronze warriors from Riace, paying particular attention to developments in the depiction of breathing, blood vessels, and facial expression, to attempts to show actual or potential motion, and to the invention of contrapposto (asymmetry of stance).

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Verlag
McGill-Queen's University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0773512314
ISBN 13 
9780773512313
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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