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Fourth-Century Styles in Greek Sculpture The first comprehensive survey of fourth-century sculpture in sixty years The second century B.C. is one of the most prolific periods in the production of Greek and Hellenistic art, but it is a period extremely vexing to scholars. Very few of the works traditionally cited as examples of this century's art can be dated with certainty, and those that plausibly belong to it reflect no obvious trends in function, iconography, or style. In Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles of ca. 200-100 B.C., the second of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway's three planned volumes on Hellenistic sculpture, she takes on the challenge of interpreting and dating the art of this complex and lively century. During this period, artistic production was stimulated by the encounter between Greece and Rome and fueled by the desire of the kings of Pergamon to emulate the past glories of fifth-century Athens. Statuary in relief and in the round, often at monumental scale, was created in a variety of styles. Ridgway attempts to determine what can be securely considered to have been produced during the second century B.C. In the course of her exploration, she critically scrutinizes most of the best-known pieces of Greek sculpture, ultimately revealing a tentative but plausible picture of the artistic trends of 200–100 B.C. "A brilliant synthesis of widely dispersed materials offering many new insights and surprising connections. Brunilde Ridgway tackles difficult problems of style, iconography, chronology, and attribution, making them intelligible and lucid."—Richard Daniel De Puma, series editor "An authoritative, informative, interesting, and extremely useful book."—Jerome J. Pollitt, Yale University "A true authority, Ridgway leads the reader, step by step, through the labyrinthine arguments of previous scholars, presents new information relevant for a reinterpretation, and then outlines carefully the results, often producing a whole new way of seeing familiar works."—Richard Daniel De Puma, University of Iowa, series editor "Ridgway's views and methods for interpreting and dating ancient Greek sculpture, which seemed revolutionary, even heretical, in the 1970s, have by now become accepted as a legitimate school of thought, although still not universally followed. She is without doubt the most influential scholar of Greek sculpture of the last thirty years."—Mark Fullerton, Ohio State University, author of The Archaistic Style in Roman Statuary Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway is Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College. Her books include Hellenistic Sculpture I, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, The Severe Style in Greek Sculpture, The Archaic Style in Greek Sculpture (Second Expanded Edition), Fifth Century Styles in Greek Sculpture, and Roman Copies of Greek Sculpture. |
August 1997 360 pp. 110 b/w photos, 28 line illus. 8 x 10 ISBN 0-299-15470-X Cloth $45S
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August 1997 360 pp. 110 b/w photos, 28 line illus. 8 x 10 ISBN 0-299-15470-X Cloth $45S
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