Jerome Jordan PollittCambridge University Press, 6/12/1986EAN 9780521276726, ISBN10: 0521276721Paperback, 344 pages, 27.6 x 21.9 x 2.3 cm'The best reason to study Hellenistic art is for its own sake' writes Professor Pollitt in the Preface to Art in the Hellenistic Age. 'But', he continues, 'I would suggest that there is an additional quality that should make the art of the Hellenistic age of particular interest to modern audiences: the fact that in background and content it was the product of an age in many ways similar to our own … The result of the historical conditions (of the age) was an art which, like much modern art, was heterogenous, often cosmopolitan, increasingly individualistic, and frequently elite in its appeal'. This 1986 book is an interpretative history of Greek art during the Hellenistic period - i.e. from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, to the establishment of the Roman Empire at the end of the first century BC - which also explores ways in which that art is an expression of the cultural experience and aspirations of the Hellenistic age.AcknowledgementsPrefaceMapsIntroduction. Hellenistic art and the temperament of the Hellenistic agePrologue. The phases of Hellenistic art1. Royal iconography2. Lysippos and his school3. Personality and psychology in portraiture4. The sculpture of Pergamon5. Hellenistic baroque6. Rococo, realism, and the exotic7. Rome as a center of Hellenistic art8. Style and retrospectionneoclassicism and archaism9. Pictorial illusion and narration10. Hellenistic mosaics11. Hellenistic architecturetheatrical and scholarly forms12. Alexandria and the PharoahAppendicesI. The chronology of Hellenistic sculptureII. The ruler cult and its imageryIII. Aspects of royal patronageIV. Bactria and IndiaV. The tomb at BeleviAbbreviationsBibliographyNotesSources of illustrationsIndex.
