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Η ελληνική τέχνη, κορυφαία πραγμάτωση του ελληνικού πνεύματος, αποτελεί το θέμα της νέας μνημειώδους σειράς της Εκδοτικής Αθηνών. Σε δεκαπέντε πολυτελείς τόμους παρουσιάζεται με πληρότητα, σε αρμονικό συνδυασμό γλαφυρού κειμένου και άρτιας εικονογράφησης, η εικαστική δημιουργία του ελληνισμού, από την πρωταυγή του έως σήμερα. Κάθε τόμος, μονογραφία μιας συγκεκριμένης έκφρασης της τέχνης των Ελλήνων, παρακολουθεί την εξελικτική διαδρομή της μέσα από έργα αντιπροσωπευτικά των φάσεων και τάσεών της, στα οποία έχει καταγραφεί το καλλιτεχνικό αλλά και κοινωνικοπολιτικό γίγνεσθαι...

Μετά τη δημιουργία του Ελληνικού κράτους οικοδομήθηκαν δύο Ελλάδες: η σύγχρονη Ελλάδα ως εθνικό κράτος του 19ου αι., που ακολούθησε με τους ρυθμούς του την τροχιά του ευρωπαϊκού εκσυγχρονισμού και μία αρχαία Ελλάδα, η οποία μέσα από το ενδιαφέρον της ευρωπαϊκής αρχαιολογίας - αρχαιογνωσίας και μέσα από την αρχαιολογική έρευνα-ανασκαφές άρχισε να αναδύεται από το ελληνικό υπέδαφος. Δύο Ελλάδες που, τελικά, ήταν μία, αφού η σύγχρονη ανακαλούσε σταθερά την αρχαία και η αρχαία λειτουργούσε ως διαμορφωτής της σύγχρονης εθνικής ταυτότητας. Αυτό το αέναο "παιχνίδι" της ανάμιξης, τ...

"Άγονη Γραμμή" είναι η ονομασία σειράς αρχαιολογικών εκθέσεων που διοργανώνει το Μουσείο Κυκλαδικής Τέχνης στους χώρους του σε συνεργασία με το Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Τουρισμού.

Since I too have agonized over trying to decipher the meaning of the Parthenon Frieze, I believe that I am allowed to repeat something that I supported some time ago: that the reexamination of a subject so labyrinthine and bibliographically lumbered has to be dealt with as an intellectual debt, the satisfaction of which will justify all future corrective approaches. However, the anticipated reevaluations of perhaps the most important artistic creation of Periclean times will be fruitful and forward-looking only to the degree that they will draw cognitive powers from a funda...

This innovative, fresh look on Greek painting combines a standard, comprehensive survey of the material record - wall-paintings, painted panels, or slabs - with an in-depth exploration of the ways in which the Greeks themselves appreciated this demanding art.

The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford is home to one of the finest collections of art and archaeology in the world. With some 10,000 objects, it is also the home of the best and most comprehensive collection of Aegean antiquities (Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean) outside of Greece. Much is owed to Sir Arthur Evans (1851 - 1941) who managed during his directorship (1884-1908) to strengthen significantly the museum’s archaeological holdings and to establish it as one of the leading centres of archaeological research. Evans is primarily known today for his excavation...

Le plaisir que l'on eprouve a presenter au public un livre comme celui de Hariclia Brecoulaki vient de ce qu'il est a la fois tres attendu - en raison de l'aura qui entoure a priori son objet - et completement nouveau par la maniere dont celui-ci y est aborde. La double formation de l'auteur, qui l'a progressivement menee de la conservation-restauration a l' archeologie historique, lui a en effet tres vite assure dans la recherche sur la peinture antique une position originale, la conduisant a etendre ses investigations hors du domaine grec, notamment dans l'Italie preromai...

Le plaisir que l'on eprouve a presenter au public un livre comme celui de Hariclia Brecoulaki vient de ce qu'il est a la fois tres attendu - en raison de l'aura qui entoure a priori son objet - et completement nouveau par la maniere dont celui-ci y est aborde. La double formation de l'auteur, qui l'a progressivement menee de la conservation-restauration a l' archeologie historique, lui a en effet tres vite assure dans la recherche sur la peinture antique une position originale, la conduisant a etendre ses investigations hors du domaine grec, notamment dans l'Italie preromai...

Islands off the beaten track is the name of a series of archaeological exhibitions being organised by and held at the Museum of Cycladic Art, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The exhibitions will focus on the most remote, inaccessible, small and medium-sized islands of the Aegean archipelago. They will include some of the farthest removed and least known regions of Greece in which people have lived and worked, and whose works and culture will be highlighted in separate exhibitions. The exhibitions are curated by the Director of the Museum of Cyclad...

The textbook Greek art and archaeology, written by Greek specialist Dimitris Plantzos and published by Kapon Editions in 2011, was selected by Atlanta-based American publishers Lockwood Press as their first venture into the field of classical archaeology. Translated by British archaeologist Nicola Wardle, the book, which has just appeared, was thoroughly revised and expanded by its author. The English-language edition is distributed in Greece and the rest of Europe by Kapon Editions, who also redesigned the Greek-language edition. In the five years since its first edition,...

[...] The Academy of Athens, showing great sensibility to our proposal, has kindly sponsored the publication of the Corpus. These circumstances made possible the composition of this volume, which presents 362 Neolithic figurines fron Eastern and Western Thessaly, the cradle of Neolithic civilization in Greece on account of its georgaphical location, natural enviroment and resources. [...] (Από τον πρόλογο του βιβλίου)

This CVA fascicule, the fourth in the Greek series, includes 108 Attic black-figure skyphoi in the National Museum of Athens. The National Museum's skyphoi represent almost every type produced in the Athenian Kerameikos during the 6th and the 5th centuries B.C., thus offering a good picture of the development of the shape. Most of the 6th-century Attic black-figure skyphoi in the National Museum have been included in this fascicule; on the numerous later mass-produced skyphoi, particularky of the CHC Group and of the Ure's Class K 2, only a selection is given, while no pinc...

This CVA fascicule includes seventy-eight Attic and five Atticizing amphorae dating to the period from Sub-Mycenaean to Late Geometric. They represent the great majority of the Attic and Atticizing amphorae of that period kept in the National Archeological Museum in Athens. Amporae from published excavations (e.g. the Nea Ionia vases) and those included in a previous CVA volume (e.g. the monumental belly handed amphora inv. no. 804) were systematically excluded from this volume. Emphasis has been given to the unpublished Attic amphorae and sixty-three vases are presented he...