A01=Andrew Stewart
alexander the great
alexandrine
ancient greek history
ancient politics
ancient world
art and culture
art history
Author_Andrew Stewart
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classicists
cliche appearance
crafted face
culture and society
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european
famous faces
famous leaders
hellenistic culture
hellenistic period
hellenistic politics
historical figures
iconography
image
physiognomy
political aims
political art
political history
portraits of alexander
power politics
Product details
- ISBN 9780520068513
- Weight: 1406g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence-on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and reliefware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most famous in history. But can we really know what meaning lies behind these images? Andrew Stewart demonstrates that these portraits--wildly divergent in character, quality, type, provenance, date, and purpose--actually transmit not so much a likeness of Alexander as a set of carefully crafted cliches that mobilize the notion "Alexander" for diverse ends and diverse audiences. Stewart discusses the portraits as studies in power and his original interpretation of them gives unprecedented fullness and shape to the idea and image called "Alexander."
Andrew Stewart is Professor of Greek and Roman Art at the University of California at Berkeley. His most recent book is Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (1990).
