J. J. Pollitt

Bio: J. J. Pollitt is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Greek art & Painting. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 22 publications receiving 869 citations.

Art in the Hellenistic Age

Abstract: Acknowledgements Preface Maps Introduction. Hellenistic art and the temperament of the Hellenistic age Prologue. The phases of Hellenistic art 1. Royal iconography 2. Lysippos and his school 3. Personality and psychology in portraiture 4. The sculpture of Pergamon 5. Hellenistic baroque 6. Rococo, realism, and the exotic 7. Rome as a center of Hellenistic art 8. Style and retrospection: neoclassicism and archaism 9. Pictorial illusion and narration 10. Hellenistic mosaics 11. Hellenistic architecture: theatrical and scholarly forms 12. Alexandria and the Pharoah Appendices: I. The chronology of Hellenistic sculpture II. The ruler cult and its imagery III. Aspects of royal patronage IV. Bactria and India V. The tomb at Belevi Abbreviations Bibliography Notes Sources of illustrations Index.

Art in the Hellenistic age

Abstract: Acknowledgements Preface Maps Introduction. Hellenistic art and the temperament of the Hellenistic age Prologue. The phases of Hellenistic art 1. Royal iconography 2. Lysippos and his school 3. Personality and psychology in portraiture 4. The sculpture of Pergamon 5. Hellenistic baroque 6. Rococo, realism, and the exotic 7. Rome as a center of Hellenistic art 8. Style and retrospection: neoclassicism and archaism 9. Pictorial illusion and narration 10. Hellenistic mosaics 11. Hellenistic architecture: theatrical and scholarly forms 12. Alexandria and the Pharoah Appendices: I. The chronology of Hellenistic sculpture II. The ruler cult and its imagery III. Aspects of royal patronage IV. Bactria and India V. The tomb at Belevi Abbreviations Bibliography Notes Sources of illustrations Index.

Art and experience in classical Greece

Abstract: An account of the development of Greek art in the Classical period (about 480-320 BC) which places particular emphasis on the meaning and content of Greek sculpture, architecture and painting. Professor Pollitt reminds us that the visual arts in Greece, as elsewhere, were primarily vehicles of expression. He does not ignore formal development but always relates this to social and cultural history, which it reflected and from which it grew. While his subject is art, he refers frequently to the literature and philosophy of the period which were shaped by the same influences.

A History of Greek Art

Abstract: A large scale illustrated history of Greek art from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. Professor Robertson's treatment is chronological rather than topical; he presents changes in the different branches of representational art as aspects of a single historical developement, concentrating on the genuinely Greek and markedly different artistic tradition whose first impulse appears at about 1000 BC and that atrophies eventually in the first century BC.

Companion to Historiography

Abstract: Introduction: The Project of Historiography Section 1: Beginnings - East and West Introduction 1.1 Asian Historiography: Two Traditions 1.2 Historiography and Greek Self-Definition .3 Re-Reading the Roman Historians 1.4 The Historiography of Rural Labour 1.5 Towards Late-Antiquity Section 2: The Medieval World Introduction 2.1 The Historiography of the Medieval State 2.2 Saladin and the Third Crusade 2.3 Family and Household 2.4 The Medieval Nobility 2.5 Armies and Warfare 2.6 Popular Religion Section 3: Early-Modern Historiography Introduction 3.1 The Idea of Early Modern History 3.2 The Scientific Revolution 3.3 Intellectual History 3.4 The English Reformation 3.5 Popular Culture in the Early-Modern West 3.6 Revisionism in Britain Section 4: Reflecting on the Modern Age Introduction I: Revolution and Ideology 4.1 The French Revolution 4.2 The Soviet Revolution 4.3 National Socialism in Germany 4.4 Fascism and Beyond in Italy 4.5 Orientalism London: II Area Studies 4.6 China 4.7 Japan 4.8 India 4.9 Africa 4.10 North America 4.11 Latin America Section 5: Contexts for the Writing of History I: Hinterlands 5.1 History and Philosophy 5.2 History and Anthropology 5.3 History and Archaeology 5.4 History of Art II: Approaches 5.5 The Historical Narrative 5.6 The Annales School 5.7 Marxist Historiography 5.8 Women in Historiography 5.9 Comparative World History 5.10 Archives and Technology

Aristotle's Poetics

Abstract: This interpretation of Aristotle's "Poetics" seeks to demonstrate that it is a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art and that it hints towards a theory of mimetic art in general. Assessing this theory against the background of earlier Greek views on poetry and art, particularly Plato's, Stephen Halliwell sets Aristotle's ideas in the wider context of his philosophical system. The core of the book is an appraisal of Aristotle's view of tragic drama, in which Halliwell contends that at the heart of the "Poetics" lies a philosophical urge to instill a secularized understanding of Greek tragedy.

Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity

Abstract: The first book to offer an integrated reading of ancient Greek attitudes to laughter. Taking material from various genres and contexts, the book analyses both the theory and the practice of laughter as a revealing expression of Greek values and mentalities. Greek society developed distinctive institutions for the celebration of laughter as a capacity which could bridge the gap between humans and gods; but it also feared laughter for its power to expose individuals and groups to shame and even violence. Caught between ideas of pleasure and pain, friendship and enmity, laughter became a theme of recurrent interest in various contexts. Employing a sophisticated model of cultural history, Stephen Halliwell traces elaborations of the theme in a series of important texts: ranging far beyond modern accounts of 'humour', he shows how perceptions of laughter helped to shape Greek conceptions of the body, the mind and the meaning of life.