Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 08/01/1999
The book begins by explaining how the early Greeks -- exposed to a rocky landscape, dependent on craft activities, and involved in warfare -- saw themselves as made of stone and metal and represented themselves in statues of marble and bronze. Later, in the Hellenistic period, as the awareness of the individual's power increased, so did the sense of physical and emotional weakness, while, with the rise of Rome, art came to be seen less as representation and more as sign, to be experienced less as a lever on the feelings and more as an aid to memory. By the end of the Roman Empire, Onians contends, inhabitants acquired an unprecedented sense of unstable inner life that enabled them to represent themselves not as solid sculptures but as thin marble slabs, their surfaces animated by veins suggestive of hidden spiritual vitality.
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