Power and pathos : bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2015] and ©2015
Subject:: Bronze sculpture, Hellenistic - Exhibitions
Portrait sculpture, Hellenistic - Exhibitions
Bronze sculpture - Expertising - Exhibitions
Contributor:: Daehner, Jens, editor
Lapatin, Kenneth D. S., editor
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy), host institution
J. Paul Getty Museum, issuing body, host institution
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), host institution
ISBN:: 9781606064399, 1606064398, 9781606064405, and 1606064401
Description:: 367 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 30 cm
Notes:: "This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World, on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, from March 14 to June 21, 2015; at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, from July 28 to November 1, 2015; and at the National Gallery of Art from December 6, 2015 to March 20, 2016"--Title page verso
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-355) and index
Contents:: Reframing Hellenistic bronze sculpture / Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin -- Why bronze? / Andrew Stewart -- Aletheia/Veritas: The new canon / Gianfranco Adornato -- Contexts of discovery / Seán Hemingway -- Hellenistic bronze sculptures from the Aegean Sea: Recent discoveries (1994-2009) / George Koutsouflakis and Angeliki Simosi -- Bronze sculpture in the Hellenistic East / Matthew P. Canepa -- Eikōn chalkē: Hellenistic statue honors in bronze / R.R.R. Smith -- Repeated images: Beauty with economy / Carol C. Mattusch -- Looking back: Archaic and classical bronzes of the Hellenistic and Roman periods / Christopher H. Hallett -- The color of bronze: Polychromy and the aesthetics of bronze surfaces / Sophie Descamps-Lequime -- Techno-Chronology? Alloy composition and the use of technical features for the dating of ancient bronzes / Alessandra Giumlia-Mair -- Formulas of power : the image of the ruler ; Flesh and bronze : bodies ideal and extreme ; The new realism of the divine ; When pathos became form : likeness and expression ; Apoxyomenos and the art of replication ; Editions of the past : retrospective styles -- Alloy compositions of select bronze sculptures / prepared by Jeffrey Maish
Summary:: "For the general public and specialists alike, the Hellenistic period (323-31 BC) and its diverse artistic legacy remain underexplored and not well understood. Yet it was a time when artists throughout the Mediterranean developed new forms, dynamic compositions, and graphic realism to meet new expressive goals, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Rare survivors from antiquity, large bronze statues are today often displayed in isolation, decontextualized as masterpieces of ancient art. Power and Pathos gathers together significant examples of bronze sculpture in order to highlight their varying styles, techniques, contexts, functions, and histories. As the first comprehensive volume on large-scale Hellenistic bronze statuary, this book includes groundbreaking archaeological, art-historical, and scientific essays offering new approaches to understanding ancient production and correctly identifying these remarkable pieces. Designed to become the standard reference for decades to come, the book emphasizes the unique role of bronze both as a medium of prestige and artistic innovation and as a material exceptionally suited for reproduction." -- Publisher's description
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: NB140 .P69 2015
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