Friday, December 16, 2005
Classical Art From Greece to Rome - Mary Beard and John Henderson
As you would expect from these two puckish scholars, this is less about brushstrokes than an analysis of our response to what we call "art". What is "Greek" art, anyway? And what is an "original" and what is a "reproduction"? And how is our response determined by this distinction? And so on.
I find its post-modernism a little self-conscious - ha! We're much crazier than those other squares in this series! - and it is a little Roman for my taste; but overall my Cambridge homeboy and girl come good on this one.
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As you would expect from these two puckish scholars, this is less about brushstrokes than an analysis of our response to what we call "art". What is "Greek" art, anyway? And what is an "original" and what is a "reproduction"? And how is our response determined by this distinction? And so on.
I find its post-modernism a little self-conscious - ha! We're much crazier than those other squares in this series! - and it is a little Roman for my taste; but overall my Cambridge homeboy and girl come good on this one.
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