A
considerably enlarged and rewritten version of a work that has served
hundreds of thousands in many languages since the early 1960s, this
book provides an authoritative and readable guide to the history of
Greek art. As the author says, "This edition is different in that
it takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes
to the subject . . . My aim has been to explain what Greek art looks like,
how to look at it, how to enjoy it as something beyond the tourist's
Parthenon or a broken museum marble, as part of our common heritage."
"One of the very best short histories of Greek Art."
—The Financial Times
A
considerably enlarged and rewritten version of a work that has served
hundreds of thousands in many languages since the early 1960s, this
book provides an authoritative and readable guide to the history of
Greek art. As the author says, "This edition is different in that
it takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes
to the subject . . . My aim has been to explain what Greek art looks like,
how to look at it, how to enjoy it as something beyond the tourist's
Parthenon or a broken museum marble, as part of our common heritage."