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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Greek Art"”.
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Un/Contemporary Arts: Norms and Forms in a Greek Art School
This dissertation addresses the fine arts education system in Athens, as I follow my interlocutors, students, educators and working artists over nineteen months of fieldwork. Greece is one of a few countries in the world in which aspirants need to compete in a live drawing exam in nineteenth- …
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The Benaki Museum in Interwar Greece: Constructing Greek Art & the Greek Nation After the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
… 1931, which exhibited a wide variety of Ottoman art and material culture. The museum, which continues to be a pre-eminent institution in Greece today, was largely the work of the Greek collector and founder Antonis Benakis (1873 – 1954) and its first director and curator Theodore Macridy Bey …
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Hellenikotita — Greekness: Constructing Greek Genre Painting, Visualizing National Identity, 1850–1900
… began to take shape. Eventually it was known in Greek as “<em>ηθογραφία</em> (“<em>ethographia</em>”) or “ethography,” from the word <em>ήθος</em> (ethos) or morals, referring to the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. Inspired by a literary vogue of the …
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A Classical Marble Head in the Krannert Art Museum: Issues of Identity and Museum Acquisition Policy
The Bearded Head in the Krannert Art Museum (acquisition number 1970-11-1) poses a significant problem of identification. Although there is no disagreement over the fact that it is a work of ancient art, it is unclear as to the period in which it was created. It has been defined in the past as a …
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Style and truth in the neoclassical art theory and criticism of Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Winckelmann
… enjoyed a greater reputation as an educator and art theorist than as a painter. Mengs' advice to young artists on the masters and precepts of the classical-minded Roman School of painting was substantially enriched by his early collaboration with Johann Winckelmann in Rome during the middle …
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Origins of Roman art
… introductory comments on the origins of Roman art deal briefly with the major cultural developments by which Roman art came into being. Primarily, how Etruscan traditions were the most dominant molding forces of Roman art, yet, the Etruscans were deeply indebted to the Greeks for initial …
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Doing History with Monsters: the Sphinx, Chimera, and Centaur in Archaic and Classical Greece
“Monsters” abound in Greek art and literature, in every written genre and painted or sculpted medium from the emergence of post-Mycenaean Greek society down through late antiquity, and yet they remain understudied and underutilized in analyses of Greek culture. It is my contention that our ability …
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Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Archaic and Classical Athens
<p>My dissertation, “Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Classical Athens,” seeks to rescue the history of these foreigner residents by studying how they represented themselves on grave markers and how they integrated themselves into the city and its cemeteries. By analyzing …