Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-painting
Richard T. Neer
In this study of Athenian vases of the late Archaic period, Neer tracks the design and imagery of the symposium, with its elaborate riddles and poems and the development of "naturalistic" techniques, such as foreshortening and shading. He also traces the birth of self-portraiture at the end of the sixth century and the treatment of overtly political subject-matter in the early democracy. The author thus reexamines basic ideas about Greek art and history, with particular regard to naturalism, realism, allegory, and the relation of ceramics to social life. Neer further demonstrates how formal ambiguity provided vase painters and their audiences with a means of creating new conceptions of civic identity.
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Anno:
2002
Casa editrice:
Cambridge University Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
306
ISBN 10:
0521791111
ISBN 13:
9780521791113
File:
PDF, 136.97 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002