The Eye of Greece by Donna Kurtz
Athenian art of the sixth and fifth centuries BC offers the yardstick by which we judge the artistic achievement of the rest of the Greek world, and provides the models on which the later history of Greco-Roman art and much of the art of the later western world are based. The evidence is rich: some long known, like the Parthenon marbles, some fresh from the ground. These six essays, by prominent classical art-historians, British, German and American, explore some of the subjects and problems in the art of Archaic and Classical Athens which have exercised scholars in recent years. The essays are dedicated to Martin Robertson, formerly Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art in the University of Oxford, himself a leading scholar of Classical art, and author of the magisterial A History of Greek Art (Cambridge University Press 1976) and of A Shorter History of Greek Art (Cambridge University Press 1981).
Sparkes, Brian: - Brian A. Sparkes studied at King's College London and the British School of Archaeology, Athens, and was Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Southampton until his retirement in 1996. He also worked for the American School of Classical Studies on the Agora excavations in Athens. He was editor of The Journal of Hellenic Studies and Archaeological Reports from 1964 to 1971, and was Honorary Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies from 1996 to 2005. His past academic posts include Visiting Fellow at the British School of Archaeology, Athens (1986-1987), Geddes-Harrower Visiting Professor at the University of Aberdeen (1991-1992) and First Leventis Professor at the University of Edinburgh (1998-1999). He was also President of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers from 2001 to 2003 and of the Classical Association from 2004-2005, and is an Honorary Member and a Vice-President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He has worked in the UK, Greece and the USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521128407 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521128404 |
| Title | The Eye of Greece |
| Author | Donna Kurtz |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2010-02-04 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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