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Genre/Form: | Exhibition catalogs Exhibitions Expositions |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J Michael Padgett; William A P Childs; D S Tsiaphakē; Princeton University. Art Museum.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. |
ISBN: | 0300101635 9780300101638 0943012406 9780943012407 |
OCLC Number: | 52566572 |
Notes: | Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Princeton University Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 2003-2004. |
Description: | 406 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
Contents: | Horse men: centaurs and satyrs in early Greek art / J. Michael Padgett -- The human animal: the Near East and Greece / William A.P. Childs -- "Pelora": fabulous creatures and/or demons of death? / Despoina Tsiafakis -- Catalogue of the exhibition : Egyptian and Near Eastern Mischwesen ; Centaurs ; Horsemen ; Satyrs ; Sphinxes ; Sirens ; Gorgons ; Minotaur ; Acheloos ; Nereus and Triton ; Typhon ; Pan. |
Responsibility: | J. Michael Padgett ; with contributions by William A.P. Childs and Despoina Tsiafakis ; Nathan T. Arrington [and others]. |
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Abstract:
Understanding the phenomenon of combining human and animal elements into composite creatures is central to our knowledge of the Greek imagination. This is an investigation of the representations of these human animals in early Greek art (circa 850-450 BC).
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