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.
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"Neer presents an intelligent and thoughtful examination of the relationship between the work of the Pioneer Painters and political and social changes during the period of transition from tyranny to democracy in Athens." Essays in Theatre Judith M. Barringer, The University of Edinburgh
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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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Attic vases were exported throughout the Mediterranean world, from the Sudan to Southern Russia, from Persia to Spain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (v. 6) by E.H. Gombrich on 4 pages
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- Ancient World (Seven Wonders of the World) by Neil Morris in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Greek Vases (Archaeology, History and Classical Studies.) by Michael Vickers in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Cultures within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration by Carol Dougherty in Front Matter
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