Greek Sculpture
Mark D. Fullerton
Wiley-Blackwell
<p><em>Greek Sculpture</em> presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD.  </p><ul><li>Compares the evolution of Greek sculpture over the centuries to works of contemporaneous Mediterranean civilizations</li><li>Emphasizes looking closely at the stylistic features of Greek sculpture, illustrating these observations where possible with original works rather than copies</li><li>Places the remarkable progress of stylistic changes that took place in Greek sculpture within a broader social and historical context</li><li>Facilitates an understanding of why Greek monuments look the way they do and what ideas they were capable of expressing</li><li>Focuses on the most recent interpretations of Greek sculptural works while considering the fragile and fragmentary evidence uncovered</li></ul>