Full bibliographic data for Greek Art

Title
Greek Art
Authors and contributors
By (author) John Boardman

Physical properties
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
Width: 149 mm
Height: 210 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight: 600 g
Audience
College/higher education
General/trade
Language
English
ISBN
ISBN 13: 9780500202920
ISBN 10: 0500202923

Classifications
BIC geographical qualifier: 1QDAG
BIC geographical qualifier: 1DVG
Dewey: 709.38
LC classification: N5630.B58
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T1.1
BICMainSubject: ACG
BISAC category code: ART009000
Dewey: 709.38
BISAC category code: ART015000

Edition
4, Revised
Edition statement
4th Revised edition

Illustrations note
302 illustrations, 73 in colour

Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint name
Thames & Hudson Ltd

Publication date
04 November 1996
Publication City/Country
London/GB

Main description
This book will do for the next generation of students and general readers what its
predecessor has done for the last - provide an authoritative and readable guide to
the history of Greek art. It is a considerably enlarged and rewritten version of a work
that has served hundreds of thousands in many languages since the early 1960s. As
the author says, "This edition is different in that it takes into account new finds as
well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject... I have attempted here to place
Greek art back into Greece and away from galleries and art books, to try to
recapture what it meant to its makers and viewers, and so better value what it has
meant to later artists in the western world. The original intentions and the way
these masterpieces are viewed today are often leagues apart. But foremost my aim
has been to explain what Greek art looks like, how to look at it, how to enjoy it as
something beyond the tourist's Parthenon or a broken museum marble, as part of
our common heritage."
Back cover copy
This book will do for the next generation of students and general readers what its
predecessor has done for the last - provide an authoritative and readable guide to
the history of Greek art. It is a considerably enlarged and rewritten version of a work
that has served hundreds of thousands in many languages since the early 1960s.
As the author says, "This edition is different in that it takes into account new finds
as well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject... I have attempted here to place
Greek art back into Greece and away from galleries and art books, to try to
recapture what it meant to its makers and viewers, and so better value what it has
meant to later artists in the western world. The original intentions and the way
these masterpieces are viewed today are often leagues apart. But foremost my aim
has been to explain what Greek art looks like, how to look at it, how to enjoy it as
something beyond the tourist's Parthenon or a broken museum marble, as part of
our common heritage".
Table of contents
The beginnings and geometric Greece; Greece and the arts of the east and Eygpt;
archaic Greek art; classical sculpture and architecture; other arts in classical
Greece; hellenistic art; Greek arts and the Greeks; the legacy.
 Full bibliographic data for Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical
Period: And Sculpture in Colonies and Overseas
Title
Greek Sculpture: The Late Classical Period: And Sculpture in Colonies and Overseas
Authors and contributors
By (author) John Boardman
Physical properties
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
Width: 149 mm
Height: 211 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 472 g
Audience
College/higher education
General/trade
Professional and scholarly
Language
English
ISBN
ISBN 13: 9780500202852
ISBN 10: 0500202850
Classifications
BICMainSubject: ACG
BIC geographical qualifier: 1DVG
BIC geographical qualifier: 1DST
Dewey: 733.3
LC classification: NB94.B63 1
Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T1.1
BIC subject category: AFK
BISAC category code: ART026000
Dewey: 733.3

Illustrations note
377 illustrations
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint name
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication date
09 October 1995
Publication City/Country
London/GB

Back cover copy

This sequel to Sir John Boardman's widely acclaimed handbooks on Greek sculpture
of the Archaic and Classical periods brings the story down through the fourth
century BC to the days of Alexander the Great. The author discusses the innovations
of the period - the female nude and portraiture, many important monuments
including the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos, and several of the great names such as
Praxiteles and Lysippus who were lionised by later generations. Complementing the
other handbooks this volume also presents Greek sculpture made in the colonies of
Italy and Sicily from the Archaic period onwards, as well as that made for eastern,
non-Greek rulers. A final section considers the role of Greek sculpture in moulding
Western taste to the present day.

Table of contents
Part 1 Late classical sculpture: architectural sculpture; names and attributions; gods
and goddesses, men and women; portraiture; funerary sculpture; other reliefs. Part
2 The western Greeks: architectural sculpture; other sculpture. Part 3 Greek
sculpture to east and south: anatolia; the levant and North America. Part 4 Ancient
and antique: collecting and collections.