Images in mind
Subtitle: statues in archaic and classical Greek literature and thought
By: Deborah Tarn Steiner.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Greek literature -- History and criticism; Statues in literature; Art and literature -- Greece; Sculpture in literature; Aesthetics, Ancient; Statues -- Greece; Sculpture, Greek
Description: "In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about - and interacted with - statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources.

It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice "good to think with."".

"By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social - rather than purely aesthetic - study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-342) and indexes.