Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999315378
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Interviewed by Daniel Maidman
Theseus
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999315378
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Interviewed by Daniel Maidman
The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece
Author: Guy HedreenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107118255
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity, first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios, developed alongside a self-consciously constructed persona of the poet. He explains how poets like Archilochos and Hipponax identified with the wily Homeric character of Odysseus as a prototype of the successful narrator, and how the lame yet resourceful artist-god Hephaistos is emulated by Archaic vase-painters such as Kleitias. In lyric poetry and pictorial art, Hedreen traces a widespread conception of the artist or poet as socially marginal, sometimes physically imperfect, but rhetorically clever, technically peerless, and a master of fiction. Bringing together in a sustained analysis the roots of subjectivity across media, this book offers a new way of studying the relationship between poetry and art in ancient Greece.
Athenian Potters and Painters III
Author: John OakleyPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782976663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some contributions focus on painters or workshops – Paseas, the Robinson Group, and the structure of the figured pottery industry in Athens; others on vase forms – plates, phialai, cups, and the change in shapes at the end of the sixth century BC. Context, trade, kalos inscriptions, reception, the fabrication of inscribed painters’ names to create a fictitious biography, and the reconstruction of the contents of an Etruscan tomb are also explored. The iconography and iconology of various types of figured scenes on Attic pottery serve as the subject of a wide range of papers – chariots, dogs, baskets, heads, departures, an Amazonomachy, Menelaus and Helen, red-figure komasts, symposia, and scenes of pursuit. Among the special vases presented are a black spotlight stamnos and a column krater by the Suessula Painter. Athenian Potters and Painters III, the proceedings of an international conference held at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 2012, will, like the previous two volumes, become a standard reference work in the study of Greek pottery.
The Codrus Painter
Author: Amalia AvramidouPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029924783X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Codrus Painter was a painter of cups and vases in fifth-century B.C.E. Athens with a distinctive style; he is named after Codrus, a legendary Athenian king depicted on one of his most characteristic vases. He was active as an artist during the rule of Pericles, as the Parthenon was built and then as the troubled times of the Peloponnesian War began. In contrast to the work of fellow artists of his day, the vases of the Codrus Painter appear to have been created almost exclusively for export to markets outside Athens and Greece, especially to the Etruscans in central Italy and to points further west. Amalia Avramidou offers a thoroughly researched, amply illustrated study of the Codrus Painter that also comments on the mythology, religion, arts, athletics, and daily life of Greece depicted on his vases. She evaluates his style and the defining characteristics of his own hand and of the minor painters associated with him. Examining the subject matter, figure types, and motifs on the vases, she compares them with sculptural works produced during the same period. Avramidou’s iconographic analysis not only encompasses the cultural milieu of the Athenian metropolis, but also offers an original and intriguing perspective on the adoption, meaning, and use of imported Attic vases among the Etruscans.
The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens
Author: Martin RobertsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521338813
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In 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.
Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art
Author: Karl SchefoldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521327183
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This volume is the sequel to Karl Schefold's Myth and Legend in Early Greek Art, and the second in his ambitious project to trace the representation of the Greek myths in Greek art from the beginnings down to the Hellenistic period.
Haspels Addenda
Author: Caroline Henriette Emilie HaspelsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263150
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
"A valuable reference source, providing new information on and recording references to new illustrations of the more than 1,500 Greek black-figured vases catalogued by Haspels"--Book jacket.
Silens in Attic Black-figure Vase-painting
Author: Guy Michael HedreenPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472102952
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A welcome examination of some curious creatures and a more curious god
Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004375961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.
Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries
Author: Erica AnglikerPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784918105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Recent excavations and new theoretical approaches are changing our view of the Cyclades. This volume aims to share these recent developments with a broader, international audience. Essays have been carefully selected as representing some of the most important recent work and include significant previously-unpublished material.