This volume offers a complete account of the meaning, form and purpose of Cycladic Art' - using masterpieces from the Goulandris collection newly and spectacularly photographed as illustrations. Renfrew introduces the familiar folded-arm figures, explaining their classification and possible use; he considers the art-historical issues which they raise: whether certain figures can be attributed to individual craftsmen; how they were originally painted; proportion schemes that might have been used in their creation; and their formal representation of the human body. He concludes with a consideration of modern perceptions of Cycladic aesthetics.
- ISBN10 0500015279
- ISBN13 9780500015278
- Publish Date 4 November 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 September 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 168
- Language English