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Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and metal into shapes evidently runs deep in our psyche and biology. This links the question 'What is sculpture?' to the question 'What is humanity?' In this wide-ranging book, two complementary voices -- one...
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"Ernst Buschor (1886-1941) was a German classical archaeologist and cultural historian. This book, perhaps his most important work, concerns periodicity in art. Published originally in German in 1942, its central subject is the highly expressive nature of Greek sculpture. Bushor expands on the notion of distinct phases, or periods, through which Greek sculpture evolved. These phases, he argues, are so deeply embedded in human consciousness that the...
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"This catalogue reproduces and describes all the sculpture on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, undoubtedly the most important collection of ancient Greek sculptures in the world. Each entry is supplemented by a full bibliography and is written not only for experts but also for the general reading public. A short introduction offers readers an overview of ancient Greek sculpture from the Archaic period to the end of Antiquity."...
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