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"Boardman gets down to the nitty-gritty of how and why potters created and decorated the vases, how their artistic quality developed and their influence spread."―Publishers Weekly

Greek pottery has long fascinated scholars and historians of art. It provides a continuous commentary on all other Greek arts, even sculpture, and the scenes figured on the vases can prove to be as subtle and informative as the great works of Greek literature. In no other art of antiquity do we come closer to the visual experience of the ancient Greeks, or are we able to observe so clearly their views on life, myth, and even politics. John Boardman has demonstrated the stylistic history of Greek vases in other Thames & Hudson titles; as he writes, the subject "is a central one to classical archaeology and art, and dare not be ignored by students of any other ancient medium, or indeed of any other classical discipline."

Here Boardman sketches that history but goes on to explore many other matters that make the study so fruitful. He describes the processes of identifying artists, the methods of making and decorating the vases, the life of the potters' quarter in Greek towns, and the way in which the wares were traded far beyond the borders of the Greek world. Boardman shows how Greek artists exercised a style of narrative in art that was long influential in the West, and how their pictures reflected not simply on storytelling but also on the politics and social order of the day. 358 illustrations

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John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art at Oxford University, has written widely on the art and archaeology of ancient Greece. His previous books include The Greeks Overseas, The History of Greek Vases, The World of Ancient Art, and others.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thames & Hudson (November 20, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0500285934
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0500285930
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 1 x 10 inches

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ehale@mst.edu

Nice scholarly work

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2011

This book is a nicely done scholarly work by Sir Boardman. It discusses the chronological development of the painting designs on Greek pottery with many examples pictured from each of the several delineated earliest time periods. There are numerous photographs (over 500) of various pottery items from museums around the world. They show the evolution from simple concentric circular and zigzag designs to very simplistic animal and human shapes to more realistic detail of humans and animals. The photographs show fine details, but are in black and white. The main emphasis in the book is on the painted designs and their time evolution. Thus, I did not find the lack of color in the photos that disturbing. The book is about far more than just vases and includes many plates, bowls, tankards, jugs, etc. I am not a student of Greek history or art, but found the book to be very readable and was interested in the history and many of the examples shown. Many years ago while touring in Greece I bought a copy of an early Greek lidded bowl, which I have always admired, and thus became interested in learning more about it. This book was definitely helpful.

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Henrique Lopes

An impression

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2007

Its a very good book, well documented. The only issue that is was important to improve, is to change at least some photos from Black and White to Color. Art documentation demands many times to see directly the pieces colors

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Rachel McCleery

From a student of classical archaeology

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2010

Boardman presents an excellent overview of current thinking on the development and significance of ancient Greek pottery. While the black and white photography seems to have bothered other reviewers, in a work of this kind the quantity and quality (= resolution) of the illustrations is more important than the color. Greek black- and red-figure vase painting is primarily the art of line drawing. With the exception of vases executed with special techniques such as added red or white (for which readers are directed to the excellent book The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases ), including full color illustrations would have meant little more than changing the pictures from black-and-white to black-and-orange.

Readers can rest assured that Boardman's reputation as a leader in the field is well-deserved. If you are looking for a good, up-to-date introduction to the scholarship of Greek vase painting, this is the book to buy.

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Amadeus 888

Dry information presented in an incoherent manner

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2012

I was disappointed with this book. I read it, because I thought it would better help me understand the development of Greek pottery. What I found instead, was a torrent of non-essential information presented in an incoherent manner. The book is divided into 10 chapters, the first chapter is devoted to a history of Greek vases and is more than one third of the book! There are no sections or headings to better organize the material, only one huge chapter full of names and illustrations. While some information is given to allow the reader to understand the progress from one style and period to another, this generally fails to be addressed in depth or in a satisfactory manner. There is very little information on the actual aesthetics of Greek vases. Boardman chooses to focus on other things instead.

Furthermore, I feel that the author's ideas about Greek pottery, its development, themes and technique are a bit superficial. Somehow, Boardman, despite his scholarship, fails to see the bigger picture.

While I appreciate the tons of information and research that went into this book, I needed something more, something that would address the essentials of Greek pottery (its logic, philosophy, aesthetic development.) Unfortunately, I didn't find it in this book, which is geared more towards archaeologists, than historians of art, artists or the general public.

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Kadmos

Black and White

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2010

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I wish I had known this book had all the pictures in black and white. What would you say of a book on the old masters of painting in black and white? Do I need to say more? or color doesn't matter in greek vases? I read a few pages and closed the book.... for ever!

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William A. Percy

Edwardian Aestheticism Gone Wild

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2010

The reviews of _Greek Vases_ on Amazon complain justifiably of the lack of
color photographs, which are understandably needed for aesthetic
evaluation, a critique also made of the more recent and better balanced
book _Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty_ by Andrew Lear and Eva
Cantarella, which also neglected to discuss metal ware. The Amazon
reviewers to date of _Greek Vases_ miss the main point, however, that
despite the title, Boardman, the doyan of Greek vaaase studies now over
80, discussed only ceramics, which were actually upstaged after 480 B.C.
by silverware at symposia as I have shown, though his arch critic Vickers,
the curator of antiquities at the Ashmolean, who Boardman is said to have
treated shabbily, falsely asserted that the Greek elite had always used
precious metals at symposia. Carried away by his homosexual mentor, Sir.
John Beazley, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, Boardman, now also
Sir John, equates the vase painters with Michaelagelo and Raphael,
although not a single one of them is ever even mentioned in any surviving
Greek or Latin document. Furthermore, against all evidence, he asserts
that these "pots," as Vickers dubs them, constituted an important economic
export for Athens, helping to balance the payments for Athenian imports in
spite of Vickers' proof that they cost very little indeed.

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Karen J. Dahood

Nice Surprise

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2014

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I bought several books on the subject to do some research for a client. This was the most helpful, and apparently the most attractive, as one of my grandchildren "borrowed" it. All to the good. It shouldn't just sit around on a shelf.

Dave Ferrarii

Museum companion

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2020

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MS F A MCSHERRY

Good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2019

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Colour photos would have been good but good price

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