{"product_id":"a-homeric-catalogue-of-shapes-9781350194571","title":"A Homeric Catalogue of Shapes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the popular imagination, Homer as author of the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey,\u003c\/i\u003e epitomises poetic genius. So, when scholars proposed that the Homeric epics were not the unique creation of an individual author, but instead reflected a traditional compositional system developed by generations of singer-poets, swathes of assumptions about the poems and their ''author'' were swept aside and called into question. Much had to be re-evaluated through a new lens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The creative process described by scholars for the Homeric epics shares many key attributes with the modern visual art-forms of collage and its less familiar variant: sculptural assemblage. \u003ci\u003eA Homeric Catalogue of Shapes \u003c\/i\u003edescribes a series of twelve sculptures that together function as an abstract portrait of Homer: not a depiction of him as an individual, but as a compositional system. The technique by which the artworks were produced reflects the poetic method that scholars termed oral-formulaic. In both of \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is wide-ranging and thoroughly researched, and displays a strong grasp of the history of Homeric scholarship ... Solms has melded two disparate topics well, and interdisciplinary work like this certainly enriches the field. * The Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a work which uses an original approach between essay and catalogue, and is fascinating in its transposition of Homeric art onto the language of contemporary sculpture. * Anabases *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements  Introduction Chapter 1: Seeing Differently Chapter 2. A Homeric Object Chapter 3: Sculptural Assemblage and the Composite Object Portrait Chapter 4: Homeric Iconographies Chapter 5: \u003ci\u003eA Catalogue of Shapes \u003c\/i\u003e2010-13: Descriptive Catalogue of Artworks Chapter 6: A Composite Object Portrait of an Oral-Formulaic Homer  Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019635917143,"sku":"9781350194571","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350194571.jpg?v=1750780858","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-homeric-catalogue-of-shapes-9781350194571","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}