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Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture: Wisconsin Studies in Classics

Autor Pat Getz-Gentle Contribuţii de Jack de Vries
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 aug 2013
Pat Getz-Gentle provides a clear and detailed survey of the Cycladic period, an early Bronze Age culture that thrived at the heart of the Aegean. In particular, she emphasizes the steps leading to the iconic, reclining folded-arm figure that uniquely defines the Cycladic era. Getz-Gentle also focuses on the personal aesthetics of fifteen carvers, several of whom are identified and discussed in this volume. New to this paperback edition is an expanded bibliography as well an addendum that contains additional works Getz-Gentle has attributed to some of the fifteen Cycladic sculptors she discusses in her book.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299172046
ISBN-10: 029917204X
Pagini: 364
Ilustrații: 98 b-w plates, 9 tables, 44 figures, 2 maps, 8 charts
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.85 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Wisconsin Studies in Classics


Recenzii

"Getz-Gentle brings the sensitive aesthetics of an art historian to these ancient objects. Her evaluations of artistic style are remarkably articulate. Here she greatly expands and updates her previous studies of Cycladic sculpture."—Margaret Ellen Mayo, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Notă biografică

Pat Getz-Gentle is the author of Early Cycladic Sculpture, Sculptors of the Cyclades, and Stone Vessels of the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age as well as the principal author of Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections. An independent scholar with a PhD from Harvard University, she lives in New Haven, Connecticut. Jack de Vries is a lecturer in art history who lives in Alkmaar, Holland.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
List of Maps, Checklists, Charts, and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1 Before the Arms Were Folded: Cycladic Sculpture from the Late Neolithic
through the Transitional Early Cycladic I/II Phase
CHAPTER 2 The Reclining Folded-Arm Figure and Its Varieties:
Cycladic Sculpture of the Early Cycladic II Period
CHAPTER 3 Sculptors of Early Cycladic I Plastiras Figures
CHAPTER 4 Sculptors of Early Cycladic II Reclining Folded-Arm Figures
CHAPTER5 Pattern and Precision: Taking the Measure of Early Cycladic II
Spedos Variety Figures, by Jack de Vries
Abbreviations
Notes
Checklists of Twenty Sculptors
Bibliography
Notes on the Plates
Notes on the Text Figures
Illustration Sources
Illustration Credits
Index
Plates

Descriere

Pat Getz-Gentle provides a clear and detailed survey of the Cycladic period, an early Bronze Age culture that thrived at the heart of the Aegean. In particular, she emphasizes the steps leading to the iconic, reclining folded-arm figure that uniquely defines the Cycladic era. Getz-Gentle also focuses on the personal aesthetics of fifteen carvers, several of whom are identified and discussed in this volume. New to this paperback edition is an expanded bibliography as well an addendum that contains additional works Getz-Gentle has attributed to some of the fifteen Cycladic sculptors she discusses in her book.