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Die Naturgeschichte Der Griechischen Bronze, Babette Babich
Die Naturgeschichte Der Griechischen Bronze, Babette Babich
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I take up Pliny’s account that 3000 life-sized, bronze statues were to be found in Rhodes, Athens, Olympia, etc. Far from the plaster image of 18th century aestheticism and apart from the modern conception of ‘desire’, the agonistic tradition of competitive contest (not conflict as Nietzsche reminds us), suggests that the Greek found himself against and in tension with such statues. A hermeneutic phenomenological reflection raises the question of the ‘look’ of such bronzes in the context both of art history and aesthetics and I refer to contemporary empirical analogies and research suggesting that ancient statues were modeled from life. …
Ad Jacob Taubes, Babette Babich
Ad Jacob Taubes, Babette Babich
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