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World of Ancient Art

Boardman John
Innbundet / 2006 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780500238271
Publisert
2006-06-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
195 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
408

Forfatter
Boardman John

Biographical note

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.

World of Ancient Art

Boardman John
Innbundet / 2006 / Engelsk
Boardman John
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The World of Ancient Art is an innovative exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing right up to the coming of Christianity and Buddhism in the Old World, and to the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World. Dividing the ancient world into three broad climatic categories – the northern nomadic, the temperate farmers and city-dwellers, and the tropical – Boardman focuses on common solutions that Man the artist has devised for the problems posed by his environment, a factor that also determined the nature of his society and its arts.
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Provides an exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing up to the coming of Christianity and Buddhism in the Old World, and to the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World. This book focuses on common solutions that man, the artist has devised for the problems posed by his environment.
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Contents • Preface • I. Early Days and the Primitive • II. The Arts of Urban Life • III. The Northern and Nomadic, and Interfaces IV. The Tropical Arts
'An eloquently argued, richly illustrated and exhilaratingly wide-ranging essay, as alive to the beauty as to the significance of art' - The Scotsman
‘Circumnavigating the ancient world’s art with Sir John Boardman … is a rare privilege and source of both sensual and intellectual enlightenment’ Sunday Telegraph

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The World of Ancient Art is an innovative exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing right up to the coming of Christianity and Buddhism in the Old World, and to the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World. Dividing the ancient world into three broad climatic categories – the northern nomadic, the temperate farmers and city-dwellers, and the tropical – Boardman focuses on common solutions that Man the artist has devised for the problems posed by his environment, a factor that also determined the nature of his society and its arts.
Les mer
Provides an exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing up to the coming of Christianity and Buddhism in the Old World, and to the arrival of the Spaniards in the New World. This book focuses on common solutions that man, the artist has devised for the problems posed by his environment.
Les mer
Contents • Preface • I. Early Days and the Primitive • II. The Arts of Urban Life • III. The Northern and Nomadic, and Interfaces IV. The Tropical Arts
'An eloquently argued, richly illustrated and exhilaratingly wide-ranging essay, as alive to the beauty as to the significance of art' - The Scotsman
‘Circumnavigating the ancient world’s art with Sir John Boardman … is a rare privilege and source of both sensual and intellectual enlightenment’ Sunday Telegraph

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780500238271
Publisert
2006-06-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Høyde
245 mm
Bredde
195 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
408

Forfatter
Boardman John

Biographical note

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.

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