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Book Number	000281976
ISBN	9780714122878
Main Entry	Jenkins, Ian
Title	Defining beauty :. the body in ancient Greek art / Ian Jenkins with Celeste Farge and Victoria Turner.
Imprint	London : The British Museum, 2015.
Descr.	256 p. : ill., ; 29 cm.
Language	eng
Gen. note	This book is published to accompany the exhibition Defining beauty: the body in ancient Greek art at the British Museum 26 March - 5 July 2015
Bibliogr.	Including notes and bibliographical references
Contents	List of lenders -- Sponsor’s foreword -- Director’s foreword -- Introduction/Neil MacGregor -- The human body in Greek art and thought/Ian Jenkins -- The life of ancient statues/Vinzenz Brinkmann -- The Greek body beautiful and the origins of European Romanticism/Matthew Bell -- The shock of the new: the reception of the Parthenon sculptures in nineteenth-century Europe/Athena S. Leoussi -- Encounters -- Body colour -- Men like gods -- Giving form to thought -- Rites of passage -- Love and desire -- Beauty and the beast -- Character and realism -- The Greek body goes east -- The shock of the new
Subject - Lib.Cong.	Art, Ancient -- Greece -- Exhibitions
	Figure sculpture, Greek -- Exhibitions
	Human beings in art -- Exhibitions
Add.Entry	Farge, Celeste
	Turner, Victoria

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