{"product_id":"9781316452370","title":"The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece: Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity","description":"This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122131452144,"sku":"9781316452370","price":96.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316452370_p0.jpg?v=1763707035","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316452370","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}