THE PARTHENON AND ITS IMPACT IN MODERN TIMES

216 pages

138 color and 198 black & white photographs

105 drawings

Clothbound with color pictures

25x21 cm.

The belief that the Parthenon is the most important building in the world, the most perfect structure ever to have been made, is deeply rooted in contemporary thought. The book presents a collection of essays by ten expert scholars, whose shared subject is the Parthenon, though approached from different angles (architecture, archaeology, history of art). Its eleva-tion to the status of the ultimate monument of an tiquity but also of the supreme model for the con-temporary world has had a profound effect on artistic and architectural creative activity. 

English

"The Parthenon is of such unparalleled importance in the culture of the world that is worth having a compendium of drawings, references, histories, and writings about it.
The contents of this single volume could fill a dozen shelves."
(AIA Jury)

Foreword

Savas Kondaratos   The Parthenon as Cultural Ideal 

Manolis Korres   The Architecture of the Parthenon

Angelos Delivorrias   The Sculptures of the Parthenon

Manolis Korres   The Parthenon from Antiquity to the 19th Century

Fani Mallouchou-Tufano   The Parthenon from Cyriacus of Ancona to Frédéric Boissonas: Description, Research and Depiction 

Panayotis Tournikiotis   The Place of the Parthenon in the History and Theory of Modern Architecture 

Stelios Lydakis   The Impact of the Parthenon Sculpture on the 19th and 20th Century Sculpture and Painting

David Van Zanten   The Parthenon Imagined Painted

Dimitris Philippides   The Parthenon as Appreciated by Greek Society 

Charalambos Bouras   Restoration Work on the Parthenon a d Changing Attitudes towards the Conservation of Monuments 

Alexandros Argyriou   The Parthenon in the Consciousness of Modern Greek Poets and Thinkers