03647nam 22006734a 450 991082630390332120200520144314.00-292-79763-X10.7560/701809(CKB)1000000000453944(OCoLC)646760665(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245691(SSID)ssj0000223044(PQKBManifestationID)11187172(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223044(PQKBWorkID)10181588(PQKB)11738710(MiAaPQ)EBC3443220(MdBmJHUP)muse2065(Au-PeEL)EBL3443220(CaPaEBR)ebr10245691(DE-B1597)587695(DE-B1597)9780292797635(EXLCZ)99100000000045394420030522d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe poetics of appearance in the Attic korai /Mary Stieber1st ed.Austin University of Texas Press20041 online resource (279 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-292-70180-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction. conceiving realism in archaic Greek art -- Chapter one.Historiography -- Chapter two. the reality of appearances -- Chapter three the idea of likeness -- Chapter four conTEXTualizing the Korai -- Chapter five phrasikleia -- Notes -- References -- IndexSome of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian korai—sculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth and early fifth centuries B.C., they served as votives until Persians sacked the citadel in 480/79 B.C. Subsequently, they were buried as a group and forgotten for nearly twenty-four centuries, until archaeologists excavated them in the 1880s. Today, they are among the treasures of the Acropolis Museum. Mary Stieber takes a fresh look at the Attic korai in this book. Challenging the longstanding view that the sculptures are generic female images, she persuasively argues that they are instead highly individualized, mimetically realistic representations of Archaic young women, perhaps even portraits of real people. Marshalling a wide array of visual and literary evidence to support her claims, she shows that while the korai lack the naturalism that characterizes later Classical art, they display a wealth and realism of detail that makes it impossible to view them as generic, idealized images. This iconoclastic interpretation of the Attic korai adds a new dimension to our understanding of Archaic art and to the distinction between realism and naturalism in the art of all periods.KoraiPolychromyGreeceAthensVotive offeringsGreeceAthensAthena (Greek deity)CultInscriptions, GreekAcropolis (Athens, Greece)Korai.PolychromyVotive offeringsAthena (Greek deity)Cult.Inscriptions, Greek.733/.3Stieber Mary C(Mary Clorinda)855048MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826303903321The poetics of appearance in the Attic korai3933478UNINA