Word: periclean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Periclean Athens," Thomas R. Martin...
...very few artists who experienced no difficulty with language while working here. He did not feel provincial, either in time or in space. His wide-ranging traffic with other styles, from "naive" folk art to Periclean and Hellenistic sculpture, was conducted on a level of affable ease. At times too affable, perhaps: witness the series of classical heads he carved in marble from about 1908 onward. They are among the most intelligent pastiches of the antique made in the 20th century. Yet despite the tact with which Nadelman unfolded the contours of these portrait heads, they look molded rather than...
...hundreds of popular entertainments that audiences and critics considered standard fare. Now that the major studios have shrunk slowly in the West, the antique movies have been revalued upward. According to many film scholars and au-teurists, old Hollywood seems to have been an amalgam of quattrocento Florence and Periclean Greece...