The parallel worlds of classical art and text / Jocelyn Penny Small.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: xv, 253 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 0521815223
- 9780521815222
- 753.709 21 SMA
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-240) and index.
The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text considers the relationship between artists and texts throughout classical antiquity. Systematically applying new and objective criteria judging the fidelity between picture and text, she argues artists illustrated stories, not texts, and that artistic transmissions follow the model of oral, not textual, transmission.
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