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The History of Greek Vases John Boardman

The History of Greek Vases By John Boardman

The History of Greek Vases by John Boardman


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Summary

Offering a survey of Greek vases, this book sketches their stylistic history. It explores the process of identifying artists; the methods of making and decorating the vases and the problems in doing so; the life of the potter; the pots' dissemination beyond Greece; and their functions in life, cult and as messengers of style and subject.

The History of Greek Vases Summary

The History of Greek Vases: Potters, Painters and Pictures by John Boardman

This book, newly available in paperback, is the definitive survey of Greek vases by the outstanding world authority on classical archaeology and art. In it, John Boardman sketches the stylistic history of Greek vases and goes on to explore the many other matters that make the subject so fruitful: the process of identifying artists; the methods of making and decorating the vases and the problems in doing so; the life of the potter; the pots' dissemination beyond Greece; and their functions in life, cult and as messengers of style and subject. Boardman demonstrates 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 story-telling, but on the politics and social order of the day.

The History of Greek Vases Reviews

'Masterful ... lively, comprehensive and well illustrated' - Journal of Classics Teaching

About John Boardman

Sir John Boardman was born in 1927, and educated at Chigwell School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He spent several years in Greece, three of them as Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and he has excavated in Smyrna, Crete, Chios and Libya. For four years he was an Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and he subsequently became Reader in Classical Archaeology and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is now Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy, from whom he received the Kenyon Medal in 1995. He was awarded the Onassis Prize for Humanities in 2009. Professor Boardman has written widely on the art and archaeology of Ancient Greece.

Table of Contents

1. A History of Greek Vases * 2. Connoisseurship * 3. Potters and Painters * 4. Trade * 5. Pictures and People I * 6. Pictures and People II 7. Greek Vases in Use * 8. Pottery and Other Arts * 9. Tricks of the Trade * 10. Tools of the Study

Additional information

GOR007670403
9780500285930
0500285934
The History of Greek Vases: Potters, Painters and Pictures by John Boardman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2008-01-21
320
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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