Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)
Contributors: Jack de Vries (Contributor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: June 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780299172008
Subjects: History of art: BCE to c 500 CE, ancient & classical world; BCE to c 500 CE; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Ancient Greece; History - Ancient & Classical; Sculpture; Archaeology; History - General; Figure sculpture; Greece; Sculpture, Cycladic
Description: "Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture represents the culmination of thirty-five years of study. Pat Getz-Gentle offers here much new material and many fresh insights into a tradition, rooted in the Neolithic period, that spanned most of the third millennium B.C. She begins with a review of this tradition, placing particular emphasis on the stages leading to the reclining figure with folded arms that is the unique and quintessential icon of the early Bronze Age culture at the center of the Aegean.

She then focuses on the styles of fifteen sculptors, several of whom are identified and discussed for the first time in this volume. By introducing little-known pieces attributable to these sculptors, she illuminates various phases of their artistic development."--BOOK JACKET.