Art in the Hellenistic Age
Pollitt, J. J. / Pollitt, Jerome Jordan / Jerome Jordan, Pollitt
The best reason to study Hellenistic art is for its own sake' writes Professor Pollitt in the Preface to Art in the Hellenistic Age. 'But', he continues, 'I would suggest that there is an additional quality that should make the art of the Hellenistic age of particular interest to modern audiences: the fact that in background and content it was the product of an age in many ways similar to our own The result of the historical conditions (of the...