Title Details: | |
The Greek Landscape and Its Relation to Modern European and Western Culture |
|
Authors: |
Moraitis, Konstantinos |
Reviewer: |
Tournikiotis, Panagiotis |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
Throughout the entire span of modern Western history, the ancient Greek example appears as a central reference—not only for cultural reasons but particularly for political reference and support. The Greek landscape thus becomes an idealized model for modern landscape concepts in painting and landscape architecture. It symbolizes the idyllic ‘Arcadia’ from which the modern cultural and political Western ethos emerges, following and complementing the emblematic cultural and political presence of Neoclassicism. Its influence permeates the Renaissance and the Baroque period, reaches its peak with the development of the Enlightenment, and shapes Romantic perspectives. Furthermore, it becomes a key point of reference for the pre-revolutionary Philhellenism and subsequently underpins both the demand for Greek identity and the dialogue of this Greekness with its European and Western interlocutors. With this international prestige, it ultimately defines modern and contemporary native intellectual thought.
|
Graphic Editors: |
Chelidoni, Aikaterini |
Type: |
Chapter |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
Item Details: | |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2629 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Moraitis, K. (2015). The Greek Landscape and Its Relation to Modern European and Western Culture [Chapter]. In Moraitis, K. 2015. The art of the landscape [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/2629 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
The art of the landscape |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |