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The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity: (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

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From one of the world’s foremost archaeologists and historians of ancient Greek art, a groundbreaking account of how Greek images were understood and used by other ancient peoples, from Britain to China

In this pioneering book, acclaimed archaeologist and art historian John Boardman explores Greek art as a foreign art transmitted to the non-Greeks of antiquity—peoples who were not necessarily able to judge the meaning of Greek art and who may have regarded the Greeks themselves with great hostility. Boardman assesses how and why the arts of the classical world traveled and to what effect, roughly from the eighth century BCE to early centuries CE., from Britain to China. Since the Greeks were not always the intermediaries and the results were largely determined by the needs of the recipients, this becomes a study of foreign images accepted or copied, usually without regard to their original function.

In some places, such as Italy, these images were overwhelmingly successful. In Egypt, the Celtic world, the eastern steppes, and other regions with strong local traditions, they were never effectively assimilated. Finally, in cultures where there was a subtler blend of influences, notably in the Buddhist east, the classical images could serve as a catalyst to the generation of effective new styles.

Boardman's approach is as much archaeological as art-historical, and the processes he reveals pose questions about how images in general are copied and reinterpreted. He also demonstrates that looking at Greek art from the outside provides a wealth of new insights into Greek art itself.



About the Author :
John Boardman is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Classical Art Research Centre. He is Professor Emeritus of Classical Art and Archaeology at Lincoln College, Oxford, and former Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum. His many books include The Greeks Overseas, The History of Greek Vases, and The Greeks in Asia.

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"[An] elegantly written book. . . . Eyes will be sharpened and classical sensitivity increased by this magisterial account of the diffusion of an artistic tradition that so many of us share."---Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, Bryn Mawr Classical Review "The familiarity and confidence with which Boardman discusses the vast array of monuments considered here is impressive. . . . In addition to its formidable erudition, the book also has the refreshing virtue of not being sentimentally Hellenocentric. Boardman does not start with the premise that the Classical style is the ultimate achievement in art or assume that its modification in other cultures must inevitably be a sad tale of barbaric degeneration. He makes an effort to see Greek art through the eyes of Egyptians, Scythians, Persians, etc., and to understand not only why they might have found it appealing but also why, in some instances, they may have found it unsatisfying; and his appreciation of non-Greek artistic styles is acute, even, at times, enthusiastic. The remarkable geographical range of this extraordinary book, in other words, is matched by its open-minded and dispassionate intellectual range. To my knowledge, no other scholar has ever covered so much ground with so much authority and insight."---J. J. Pollitt, American Journal of Archaeology "Boardman's subject is not so much what Greek art meant to the Greeks and to foreigners but how it moved through the world. . . . Anyone curious about ancient cultures will find it absorbing."---Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle


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  • ISBN-13: 9780691036809
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 267 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Series Title: Bollingen Series
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0691036802
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jan 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
  • Weight: 1446 gr


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