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The Living Death of Antiquity examines the historical development of a neoclassical aesthetic in visual art and sculpture centred on simplicity and grandeur. Fitzgerald describes its ideals and potential as well as its remaining significance in modern culture.

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William Fitzgerald's The Living Death of Antiquity is a striking title indeed...This collection of carousing Greek poems from across several centuries, it is claimed, inaugurates something of a tradition itself, advocating a 'timeless lifestyle of drinking, desiring, and singing'. * Greece & Rome *

Table of Contents
1: Introduction: Why Neoclassicism? 2: The Iliad Backtranslated: Alexander Pope and John Flaxman 3: Sculpture between the Graceful and the Heroic: Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen 4: Voicing Antiquity: the Anacreontea and Charles Leconte de Lisle's Études Latines 5: Modernism, Neoclassicism, and Irony: Erik Satie's Socrate Conclusion

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/02/2022
      ISBN13: 9780192893963, 978-0192893963
      ISBN10: 0192893963

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Living Death of Antiquity examines the historical development of a neoclassical aesthetic in visual art and sculpture centred on simplicity and grandeur. Fitzgerald describes its ideals and potential as well as its remaining significance in modern culture.

      Trade Review
      William Fitzgerald's The Living Death of Antiquity is a striking title indeed...This collection of carousing Greek poems from across several centuries, it is claimed, inaugurates something of a tradition itself, advocating a 'timeless lifestyle of drinking, desiring, and singing'. * Greece & Rome *

      Table of Contents
      1: Introduction: Why Neoclassicism? 2: The Iliad Backtranslated: Alexander Pope and John Flaxman 3: Sculpture between the Graceful and the Heroic: Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen 4: Voicing Antiquity: the Anacreontea and Charles Leconte de Lisle's Études Latines 5: Modernism, Neoclassicism, and Irony: Erik Satie's Socrate Conclusion

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