Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530–470 BCE (Cambridge Studies in Classical Art and Iconography)

Neer, Richard T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521791111 ISBN 13: 9780521791113

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Tracks the design and imagery of Athenian vases of the late Archaic period, considering the representation of the symposium, development of 'naturalistic' techniques, birth of self-portraiture, and treatment of overtly political subject-matter.

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'As a sophisticated meditation on aspects of artistic naturalism at the beginning of the classical period in Greece, Style and Politics scores very highly.' Classics

'... wide basis of research, richness and variety of ideas.' Minerva

'... excellent and challenging ...'. Art History

Reseña del editor:

The pictures on Athenian vases of the late Archaic period often play upon the tension between an image and its material support, and between the sense of depth and the sense of surface. Richard Neer's study tracks design and imagery on Athenian vases in four domains: the symposium, with its elaborate riddles and poems; the development of 'naturalistic' techniques, such as foreshortening and shading; the birth of self-portraiture at the end of the sixth century; and the treatment of overtly political subject-matter in the early democracy. In each case, formal ambiguity provided vase painters and their audiences with a means of creating new conceptions of civic identity. Focusing on 'how pictures show what they show' leads the author to a re-examination of basic ideas about Greek art and its history, with particular regard to naturalism, realism, allegory, and the relation of ceramics to social life.