Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art Contributor(s): Zanker, Graham (Author), Bamberger, Tom (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0299194507 ISBN-13: 9780299194505 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker offers exciting new interpretations by closely comparing poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander themes in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - Greece |
Dewey: 881.010 |
LCCN: 2003005678 |
Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.42" W x 9.22" (1.01 lbs) 223 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
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Publisher Description: "My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography." H. H. Bennett Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843 1908) became a celebrated photographer in the half-century following the American Civil War. Bennett is admired for his superb depictions of dramatic landscapes of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and also for his many technical innovations in photography, including a stop-action shutter and a revolving solar printing house that is now housed at the Smithsonian Institution. With his instantaneous shutter, he gained recognition for his striking images of moving subjects, such as lumber raftsmen shooting the river rapids and his son Ashley leaping in midair from a bluff to the craggy pillar of Stand Rock. Less well-known are Bennett s splendid urban photographs of nineteenth-century Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul. Finalist, Midwest Regional Interest, Midwest Book Awards " |