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• Title:The afterlives of Greek sculpture : interaction, transformation, and destruction / Rachel Kousser, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
  
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• Author/Creator:Kousser, Rachel Meredith, 1972- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NB94 .K685 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sculpture, Greek.
  Sculpture--Psychological aspects.
  Sculpture--Mutilation, defacement, etc.--Greece--History--To 1500.
  Art and society--Greece--History--To 1500.
  
• Description:xv, 309 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:"The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on archaeological and textual sources to analyze the later histories of these sculptures, reconstructing the processes of damage and reparation that characterized the lives of Greek images. Using an approach informed by anthropology and iconoclasm studies, Kousser describes how damage to sculptures took place within a broader cultural context. She also tracks the development of an anti-iconoclastic discourse in Hellenic society from the Persian wars to the death of Cleopatra. Her study offers a fresh perspective on the role of the image in ancient Greece.It also sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-289) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107040724 (hardback)
  1107040728 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I AFTERLIVES OF GREEK SCULPTURES
  1. Dangerous Afterlives: The Creek Use Of "Voodoo Dolls"
  2. Use And Abuse: Toward An Ontology Of Sculpture In Ancient Greece
  pt. II BARBARIC, DEVIANT, AND UN-HELLENIC: DAMAGE TO SCULPTURES AND ITS COMMEMORATION, 480 BCE
  30 BCE
  3. "Barbaric" Interactions: The Persian Invasion And Its Commemoration In Early Classical Greece
  4. Deviant Interactions: The Mutilation Of The Herms, Oligarchy, And Social Deviance In The Peloponnesian War Era
  5. Collateral Damage: Injury, Reuse, And Restoration Of Funerary Monuments In The Late Classical To Early Hellenistic Kerameikos
  6. State-Sanctioned Violence: Altering, Warehousing, And Destroying Leaders' Portraits In The Hellenistic Era
  pt. III CONCLUDING MATERIAL.