The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text

ISBN-13: 9780521815222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 270 str.

Jocelyn Penny Small

Opis

Considering the relationship between artists and texts throughout classical antiquity, this study systematically applies new and objective criteria to judge the fidelity between picture and text. It becomes clear that artists illustrate stories, not texts, and Jocelyn Penny Small argues that artistic transmissions follow the model of oral, not textual, transmission where the variant rules and there is no original. Pictures on vases, she demonstrates, should not be used to reconstruct lost literary works.

Recenzje

'… a readable and provocative reflection on the subject, of interest to any art historian.' The Burlington Magazine

Spis treści

1. What does it mean to illustrate a text?; 2. The evidence from Archaic and Early Classical Greek art; 3. The evidence for Greek plays; 4. The evidence from Hellenistic and Roman art; 5. Illustrated text from antiquity; 6. There is no original!