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Author Renfrew, Colin, 1937-

Title The Cycladic spirit : masterpieces from the Nicholas P. Goulandris collection / Colin Renfrew ; introduction by Christos Doumas ; photographs by John Bigelow Taylor.

Imprint New York : H.N. Abrams in association with the Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 1991.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection M Schick  732.3093915 R294c 1991    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 207 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 30 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
Contents [Pt. 1] The Cycladic world -- Prologue: The Cycladic spirit -- The discovery of early Cycladic civilization Christos Doumas -- The Cycladic world -- From the sparse earth: early Cycladic life and society.
[Pt. 2] From society to sculpture -- The early phase of Cycladic art: the definition of form -- The mature phase: the clear line -- Introducing the canonical figure -- The uses of the beautiful.
[Pt. 3] Aspects of Cycladic art -- Makers and masters -- Pigment and purity -- The Cycladic convention: canon and proportion -- Cycladic heads -- Cycladic anatomy -- The genesis of monumental sculpture -- Action and immobility -- The eye of the beholder: Cycladic art and modern taste -- Simplicity and severity in western art -- Epilogue: The birth of Apollo.
Subject Goulandris, Nicholas P. -- Art collections.
Mouseio Kykladiks Techns.
Sculpture, Cycladic.
Sculpture -- Private collections -- Greece -- Athens.
Goulandris, Nicholas P. (OCoLC)fst00415380
Mouseio Kykladiks Techns. (OCoLC)fst00665263
Art -- Private collections. (OCoLC)fst00815314
Sculpture, Cycladic. (OCoLC)fst01109633
Sculpture -- Private collections. (OCoLC)fst01109501
Greece -- Athens. (OCoLC)fst01204474
Added Author Taylor, John Bigelow.
Hidryma Nikolaou P. Goulandr.
Mouseio Kykladiks Techns.
ISBN 0810931699
9780810931695
0810925001
9780810925007

 
    
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