Combat scenes in classical Greek art as "beautiful objects": the expressive power of visual omission
Two explanations are proposed for the fact that classical scenes depicting a combat between a Greek warrior and an opponent are composed in a restrained way, in that the actual violence of maiming and killing is not explicitly represented. The first explanation is speculative as a visual parallel wi...
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South African Journal of Art History
2008
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| Online Access: | http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000804 |