The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

287 Pages·2010·5.746 MB·English

by  Richard Neer

The
Emergence
of the
Classical
Style
in
Greek
Sculpture

The
Emergence
of the
Classical
Style
in
Greek
Sculpture
richard neer
The University of Chicago Press chicago and london
richard neer is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of
Humanities, Art History, and the College at the University of C hicago,
where he is also an affiliate of the departments of Classics and Cinema
and Media Studies. He has published widely on Greek art, the theory of
style, seventeenth-century French painting, and contemporary cinema.
He is a coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
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All rights reserved. Published 2010
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isbn-13: 978-0-226-57063-1 (cloth)
isbn-10: 0-226-57063-0 (cloth)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neer, Richard T.
The emergence of the classical style in Greek sculpture / Richard Neer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-226-57063-1 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-57063-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Sculpture, Greek. 2. Art,
Greek. I. Title.
nb90.n447 2010
733'.3—dc22
2010008034
∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements
of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Perma-
nence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1992.
for
Theodore Frederick Douglass Neer
He makes a July’s day short as December,
And with his varying childness cures in me
Thoughts that would thick my blood.

Even if in the last resort I have no absolute
knowledge of this stone, and even if my knowledge
regarding it takes me step by step along an infinite
road and cannot ever be complete, the fact r emains
that the perceived stone is there, that I recognize
it, that I have named it and that we agree on a
certain number of statements about it.
maurice merleau-ponty (1962: 330)
I will describe this experience in order, if possible,
to make you recall the same or similar e xperiences,
so that we may have a common ground for our
investigation. I believe the best way of describing
it is to say that when I have it I wonder at the
existence of the world.
ludwig wittgenstein (1993: 41)

contents
List of Illustrations xi
Preface xv
Introduction: An Apology for Style 1
1 wonders taken for signs 20
2 the speed of light 70
3 diaphanous figures 104
4 myths of the inner 142
5 space and politics 182
Coda: The Benefits of Hindsight 215
List of Abbreviations 216
Notes 217
Bibliography 239
General Index 255
Index Locorum 261
Color gallery follows page 112