CLASSICAL ART

This book provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itsel f in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future.What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Gr eek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these ob...[Read more]