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Nationalism and Classicism: The Classical Body As National Symbol in Nineteenth-Century England and France

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1998
ISBN
0312177763, 9780312177768
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31659798 bytes)
Pages
260\301
Time added
2013-09-21 22:10:21

Description

This is a comparative study of the national significance of the classical revival which marked English and French art during the second half of the 19th century. It argues that the main focus of artists' interest in classical Greece, was the body of the Greek athlete. It explains this interest, first, by artists' contact with the art of Pheidias and Polycletus which portrayed it; and second, by the claim, made by physical anthropologists, that the classical body typified the race of the European nations.

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