GREEK SCULPTURE The Archaic Period a handbook

For most people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancient art to break free from conceptual conventions for representing men and animals, and to explore consciously how art might imitate or even improve upon it. The first stages of thi...

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Main Author: Boardman, John 1927- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 1991
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