Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity
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The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if, like Pallas Athene springing from the head of Zeus, its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in eighteenth-century aesthetics. He argues that Winckelmann's History of...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0804738483
ISBN13:9780804738484
Release Date:May 2000
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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