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Author: Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-05-05
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 110766280X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study explores the phenomenon of 'spectators' at the sides of Athenian narrative vase paintings.
Author: Martin Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780521338813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his new book, Professor Martin Robertson - author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) - draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the 'red-figure' technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. The book is intended as a companion volume to Sir John Beazley's The Development of Attic Black-figure (originally published in 1951 by California University Press), and as an examination and defence of Beazley's methods and achievements. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject - whether scholar, student, curator, collector or amateur - will find it essential reading.
Author: Alexandre G. Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-08-24
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0521513707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia.
Author: Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0521110386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooking at Greek Art, by Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell, offers a practical guide to the methods for approaching, analyzing, and contextualizing an unfamiliar piece of Greek art. It demonstrates how objects are dated and assigned to an artist or region; how to interpret the subject matter and narrative; how to reconstruct the context for which an object was made, distributed, and used; and how we can explore broader cultural perspectives by looking at questions of identity, gender, and relationships to surrounding cultures. Each section focuses on different theoretical approaches, providing an overview of the theories, key terms, and required evidence. Case studies serve to demonstrate each process and some key issues to consider when using a given approach. This book explores a variety of media, including terracotta, metalwork, and jewelry, in addition to works found in major museum collections in the United States and Europe.
Author: David Walsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 052189641X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods. Many of the images present the gods and heroes as ridiculous and ugly. While the narrative content of some images may appear to be trivial, others address issues that are deeply serious. When placed against the background of the religious beliefs and social frameworks from which they spring, these images allow us to explore questions relating to their meaning in particular communities. Throughout, we see indications that Greek vase-painters developed their own comedic narratives and visual jokes. The images enhance our understanding of Greek society in just the same way as their more sober siblings in "serious" art. David Walsh is a Visiting Research Scholar in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at The University of Manchester.
Author: Kathryn Topper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-11-12
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1107011027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores what it meant to be a Greek community and how Athenians thought about past and present.
Author: Carolyn Laferrière
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-01-31
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1009315943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines representations of divine music to argue that visual arts could communicate the sound of divine music being depicted.
Author: Cezary Kucewicz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1350151556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the representations of the war dead in early Greek mythology, particularly the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle, alongside iconographic images on black-figure pottery and the evidence of funerary monuments adorning the graves of early Athenian elites, this book provides much-needed insight into the customs associated with the war dead in Archaic Athens. It is demonstrated that this period had remarkably little in common with the much-celebrated institutions of the Classical era, standing in fact much closer to the hierarchical ideals enshrined in the epics of Homer and early mythology. While the public burial of the war dead in Classical Athens has traditionally been a subject of much scholarly interest, and the origins of the procedures described by Thucydides as patrios nomos are still a matter of some debate, far less attention has been devoted to the Athenian war dead of the preceding era. This book aims to redress the imbalance in modern scholarship and put the spotlight on the Athenian war dead of the Archaic period. In addition, the book deepens our understanding of the processes which led to the establishment of first public burials and the Classical customs of patrios nomos, shedding significant light on the military, cultural and social history of Archaic Athens. Challenging previous assumptions and bringing new material to the table, the book proposes a number of new ways to investigate a period where many 'ancestral customs' were thought to have their roots.
Author: Mary Ann Eaverly
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013-12-10
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0472119117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigating the history behind color as a method of gender differentiation in ancient Greek and Egyptian art
Author: Amy C. Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-06-22
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9004214526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study Dr Smith investigates the use of political personifications in the visual arts of Athens in the Classical period (480-323 BCE). Whether on objects that served primarily private roles (e.g. decorated vases) or public roles (e.g. cult statues and document stelai), these personifications represented aspects of the state of Athens—its people, government, and events—as well as the virtues (e.g. Nemesis, Peitho or Persuasion, and Eirene or Peace) that underpinned it. Athenians used the same figural language to represent other places and their peoples. This is the only study that uses personifications as a lens through which to view the intellectual and political climate of Athens in the Classical period.
