Author : Jocelyn Penny Small
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521733069
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)
Book Synopsis The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text by : Jocelyn Penny Small
Download or read book The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text written by Jocelyn Penny Small and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the relationship between artists and texts throughout classical antiquity, this study systematically applies new and objective criteria to judge the fidelity between picture and text. It becomes clear that artists illustrate stories, not texts, and Jocelyn Penny Small argues that artistic transmissions follow the model of oral, not textual, transmission where the variant rules and there is no original. Pictures on vases, she demonstrates, should not be used to reconstruct lost literary works.