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Greek Subjects, Greek-American Artists, and American Abstract Expressionism [PDF]

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2017
Many Abstract Expressionists in America found in Greek mythology rich material to express metaphoric meaning that could be communicated through the referential titles that they gave to their art, even when they stayed far away from literal representation.
Gail Levin
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Tradition and historical reconstruction in modern Church art on the example of the “Apocalypse” by Nikolai Masteropulo (from the point of view of the Medievalist)

Российский журнал истории Церкви, 2021
The article deals with Apocalypse cycle of cloisonné enamels created in the early 2000-s by Russian and Greek artist Nilolaos Masteropoulos. The article analyses the concept of this creation, conceived as an actual art work made by medieval tool ...
Yu. N. Buzykina
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Advice to a student of Classics

The Journal of Classics Teaching, 2017
Look at the secondary school timetable and you will see that almost all the subjects are ancient Greek words; so the Greeks studied these ideas first and are worth studying for their ideas in their own language (just like the Romans in Latin!).
William Lawrence
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Archaeological, art-historical, and artistic approaches to classical antiquity. Viccy Coltman (ed.), Making Sense of Greek Art, University of Exeter Press, 2012 [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2012
Making sense of Greek Art is a Festschrift in memory of John Betts containing papers by ten of his students and colleagues. Their papers on Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and nineteenth-century topics reveal a wide range of methodologies.
Carol C. Mattusch
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Lakshmi, Bounty and Cultural Deification: A Review of Treasures of Lakshmi – The Goddess who Gives by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal [PDF]

Litinfinite
Indian mythology and cultural constructiveness have always seen Lakshmi as the goddess who gives, Lakshmi as the goddess of bounty and fortune. If we scrutinize the cross-cultural segments of Greek, Roman, and Indian mythology, we find that in the ...
Sreetanwi Chakraborty
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La représentation du temps et des mythes dans l’art grec aspectif

Pallas, 2017
In seeking to represent their myths and their way of life, the Greeks invented their own way of representing aspective. Since that a myth is realized in time, we must ask ourselves the question of the treatment of time in the Greek aspective.
Elena Oulié
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Arkaik Dönem Yunan Mimarisinde Grotesk İzler: Gorgon-Medusa

Journal of Literature and Humanities
Trajedi ve mizahı ironik bir şekilde imgeye dönüştüren Grotesk bilinçaltındaki korkuları, gülünç tuhaflıkları ve insana rahatsızlık veren duyguları ortaya çıkaran bir bezeme tarzı olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır.
Laleş Uslu Azarak
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Creatures of multi-heads in the Greek Art

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2017
Typhon or Typhaon or Typhoeus. A vast and terrifying monster, the final challenger to the power of Zeus, king of the gods.Typhon is said to have been a child of Hera alone, who was jealous when Zeus produced Athena from his head.
Sara Bilal
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Transition of Greek art song from the national school to modernism [PDF]

Muzikologija, 2008
This study presents the different ways in which two Greek composers, Leonidas Zoras and Jani Christou, viewed modernism. The songs of Zoras are typical example of the gradual withdrawal from the aesthetic framework of the National School which dominated ...
Kontossi Sofia
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Rethinking mythology in Greek museums through contemporary culture [PDF]

, 2010
This thesis investigates the character with which Greek mythology, one of the most durable manifestations of ancient Greek heritage, survives in the perception of contemporary Greeks, and the role that Greek museums do and could play in this.
Antonopoulou, Marina
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