In the Summer of 1998, Professor Emeritus of the UMass Art History Department J. Leonard Benson offered the UMass Amherst Libraries publication rights to a set of two scholarly works, entitled Greek Color Theory and the Four Elements and Greek Sculpture and the Four Elements. In accepting these monograph-length manuscripts, the UMass Amherst Libraries recognized an opportunity to explore the new role of electronic publisher that other research libraries, such as the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Virginia, have entered.
The two texts, published in May 2000 by the Digital Initiatives Team, added a new and valuable resource to the Libraries' collections while allowing the Digital Initiatives Team to investigate new technologies that may well become central to information organization, access and exchange in a Web environment.
In 2007, the works were converted to PDF format and added to ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. The original website can be found here.
Digital Books from 2000
Appendix A: Diagrams illustrating the progressive governance of the four elements-cycle by each element in turn, J.L. Benson
Appendix B: The structure of a world view (Kluback & Weinbaum 1957, 25-27), J.L. Benson
Appendix C: Triadism in the history of 19th and early 20th century psychology, J.L. Benson
Appendix D: On the question of mineral weight in the Canon, J.L. Benson
Chapter 1: Toward defining the ego, J.L. Benson
Chapter 2: Survey of examples of period-setting in studies of Greek art (or Greek sculpture) in modern scholarship, J.L. Benson
Chapter 3: Human consciousness and time, J.L. Benson
Chapter 4: Form and time, J.L. Benson
Chapter 5: A detailed study of the emergence and significance of contrapposto, J.L. Benson
Cover and front matter, J.L. Benson
Epilogue: On philosophers and artists, J.L. Benson
Figures, J.L. Benson
Greek Sculpture and the Four Elements [full text, not including figures], J.L. Benson
Introduction, J.L. Benson
Notes, J.L. Benson
Preface, J.L. Benson
Select bibliography, J.L. Benson