How to Read Greek Sculpture

$29.95 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

By Seán Hemingway This volume, the latest installment in The Met's widely acclaimed How to Read series, introduces eight centuries of Greek sculpture, from the early rectilinear designs of the Geometric period (ca. 900–700 BCE) through the groundbreaking creativity of the Archaic and Classical periods to the monumental achievements of the Hellenistic Age (323–31 BCE). The generous selection of objects and materials—ranging from the sacred to the everyday, and from bronze and marble to gold, ivory, and…