Princeton Hellenic Studies Lecture - Monday, March 5, 2007 - 6:30 p.m.
June Samaras
Date: Feb 27, 2007 5:09 PM
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - Program in Hellenic Studies - Lecture
Dimitris Plantzos - University of Peloponnese
Time and the Antique: Linear Casuality and the Greek Art Narrative
Time is essential to history, art history included. In the course of
the late nineteenth and most of the twentieth century, classical
archaeologists have been able to produce a sophisticated blueprint for
the development of Greek Art. Their endeavour was based on a strictly
positivist epistemological paradigm, ostensibly rooted in Cartesian
logic and Newtonian physics, though actually masterminded by
nineteenth-century empiricism. The Greek-art narrative as we know it
assumes a linear understanding of the cause-and-effect relation in
history, subject to an implicit belief in the finality of history.
Under closer scrutiny, however, this "story" of Greek art may be found
to be severely flawed. Is it addressing epistemic needs that are no
longer present? Has Classical archaeology been trapped in a paradigm
that has ceased to be valid? Can we understand the antique without
knowing time?
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Dimitris Plantzos studied Classical Archaeology at the University of
Athens and the University of Oxford. He is the author of Hellenistic
Engraved Gems (Oxford University Press, 1999) and has published a
number of articles and studies on Greek art and archaeology. Recently
he published a modern Greek translation of the Imagines by
Philostratus the Elder, with introduction and commentary. His recent
research focuses on theoretical approaches to Classical culture and
the history of Greek archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. A former Curator (1998-2003) of the Museum of Cycladic Art,
Athens, he has taught Classical art and archaeology at the
Universities of Oxford and Peloponnese, the Hellenic Open University,
and the International Center for Greek and Mediterranean Studies,
Athens.
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Monday, March 5, 2007 - 6:30 p.m.
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
This event is made possible by the Cycladic Art Foundation, New York,
as part of their Alexander Papamarkou Lecture Series.
Cosponsored by the Program in the Ancient World, The Princeton
University Art Museum, and the Department of Classics
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