The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity

N.J.: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1994. First US ed., first printing (number line). 352 pages: illustrations, maps; 27 cm. Near Fine. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780691036809, 0691036802

John Boardman here explores Greek art as a foreign art transmitted to the non-Greeks of antiquity - peoples who were not necessarily able to judge the meaning of Greek art and who may have regarded the Greeks themselves with great hostility. Boardman's pioneering work assesses how and why the arts of the Classical world traveled and to what effect, roughly from the eighth century B.C. to early centuries A.D., from Britain to China. Since the Greeks were not themselves always the intermediaries and the results were largely determined by the needs of the recipients, this becomes a study of foreign images accepted or copied usually without regard to their original functionContents: Introduction. Greek art. The Near East and the Persian Empire: Before about 550 B.C.; The Persian Empire. The Semitic world and Spain. The East after Alexander the Great: Persia and Parthia; Bactria; Gandhara and North India; Central Asia and the Far East. Egypt and North Africa. The countries of the Black Sea: Thrace; Scythia; Colchis. Italy: Etruria; Rome. Europe. Conclusion.