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The afterlives of Greek sculpture : interaction, transformation, and destruction
Title
The afterlives of Greek sculpture : interaction, transformation, and destruction / Rachel Kousser, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
ISBN
9781107040724
1107040728
Publication
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xv, 309 pages ; 26 cm
Summary
"The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on archaeological and textual sources to analyze the later histories of these sculptures, reconstructing the processes of damage and reparation that characterized the lives of Greek images. Using an approach informed by anthropology and iconoclasm studies, Kousser describes how damage to sculptures took place within a broader cultural context. She also tracks the development of an anti-iconoclastic discourse in Hellenic society from the Persian wars to the death of Cleopatra. Her study offers a fresh perspective on the role of the image in ancient Greece.It also sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 19, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I. The afterlives of Greek sculptures
Dangerous afterlives: the Greek use of 'voodoo dolls'
Use and abuse: toward an ontology of sculpture in ancient Greece
Part II. Barbaric, deviant, and un-hellenic: damage to sculptures and its commemoration, 480BCE-30 BCE
'Barbaric' interactions: the Persian invasion and its commemoration in early classical Greece
Deviant interactions: the mutilation of the herms, oligarchy, and social deviance in the Peloponnesian war era
Collateral damage: injury, reuse, and restoration of funerary monuments in the early Hellenistic Kerameikos
State-sanctioned violence: altering, warehousing, and destroying leaders' portraits in the Hellenistic era
Part III: Concluding material
Conclusion: the afterlives of Greek sculptures in the Roman and early Christian eras.
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