kouros
Americannoun
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kouroi
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of kouros
1915–20; < Greek koûros, dialectal variant of kóros boy; cf. kore
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According to prosecutors, Steinhardt purchased the kouros statue from dealer Robert Hecht in November 2000 for $2.3 million.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
The day will come — is it already here? — when a Kongo power figure is as familiar to a Met audiences as a Greek kouros, and “Gwandansu” helps explain what a “Madonna” means.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
Sometimes I’m doing paintings and I could be doing anything, but it still looks like a kouros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
It’s like watching a chrysalis become a butterfly: The prototypes are impressive, but the kouros is timeless; he might be about to breathe, move, speak.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2015
The kouros, the records stated, had been in the private collection of a Swiss physician named Lauffenberger since the 1930s, and he in turn had acquired it from a well-known Greek art dealer named Roussos.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Headless and repetitious, they look "expressionist" but aren't: their true ancestors are ancient kouroi and Egyptian scribes planted on their plinths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leger's Three Women, 1921, is as self-consciously a masterpiece as any salon painting up to and including Seurat's Grande Jatte, and its nudes have the perfect dispassionateness of ancient kouroi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Was the statue consistent with other known kouroi?
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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