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This work is a beautiful photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece in the British Museum - the Parthenon sculptures. The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivalled examples of classical Greek art that have inspired sculptors, artists, poets and writers since their creation in the fifth century BC. This book serves as a superb visual introduction to these magnificent sculptures. The book showcases a series of specially taken photographs of the different sculptural elements: the pediments, metopes and Ionic frieze. It captures the vitality of the sculptures in a group, an individual sculpture or an exquisite eye-catching detail, such as the mane of a horse, a human foot, the swish of drapery or a youthful head bowed in thought. An introduction sets the sculptures in their cultural and art-historical context. A brief account of the Parthenon's history is followed by a discussion of the sculptures as architecture and an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens.Striking comparative images bring out particular features in the design of the sculptures or contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book also reflects upon how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. It is ironic that we who see them in museum galleries know the sculptures more intimately than the ancients who saw them on the building for which they were intended. The sculptures have been transformed from architectural ornament into art objects. Not since they were carved has the relationship between sculpture and spectator been so intense, and never has its cultural identity been so hotly debated.
This work is a beautiful photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece in the British Museum - the Parthenon sculptures. The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivalled examples of classical Greek art that have inspired sculptors, artists, poets and writers since their creation in the fifth century BC. This book serves as a superb visual introduction to these magnificent sculptures. The book showcases a series of specially taken photographs of the different sculptural elements: the pediments, metopes and Ionic frieze. It captures the vitality of the sculptures in a group, an individual sculpture or an exquisite eye-catching detail, such as the mane of a horse, a human foot, the swish of drapery or a youthful head bowed in thought. An introduction sets the sculptures in their cultural and art-historical context. A brief account of the Parthenon's history is followed by a discussion of the sculptures as architecture and an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens.Striking comparative images bring out particular features in the design of the sculptures or contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book also reflects upon how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. It is ironic that we who see them in museum galleries know the sculptures more intimately than the ancients who saw them on the building for which they were intended. The sculptures have been transformed from architectural ornament into art objects. Not since they were carved has the relationship between sculpture and spectator been so intense, and never has its cultural identity been so hotly debated.
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