Images at the crossroads : media and meaning in Greek art

Barringer, Judith M., 1959- (editor., Editor, Added Author). Lissarrague, F. (Fran�cois), (contributor., Contributor, Added Author).

Summary: New studies on the interaction of various media in ancient Greek artThis collection includes twenty-one new essays by leading scholars in the field of Greek art and archaeology. Exploring a range of media including vase painting, sculpture, gems and coins, they each address questions that cross the boundaries of specialised fields.They outline the range of visual experiences at stake in the various media used in antiquity and shed light on the specificities of each medium. They show how meaning is produced, according to the nature of the medium: its use, context and enunciative structure. Also explored are the different methodologies used to produce meaning: how do images 'make', or create, sense to their ancient viewers and how can we now access those meanings?This richly illustrated volume offers new interpretations and arguments concerning fundamental questions in the field which expands our knowledge and understanding of Greek art, patrons and viewers.

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ISBN: 9781474487368
ISBN: 147448736X
ISBN: 9781474487382
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 pages) : 120 black and white illustrations 170 color illustrations.
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Copyright: �2022

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General Note:	CatMonthString.october.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and indices.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of illustrations-- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviatios -- Introduction -- Part I. Making meaning : how do images work? -- 1. Ways of making sense: eagle and snake in archaic and classical Greek art -- 2. Images and history in eighth- and seventh-century BC Athens: a discursive analytical approach -- 3. Knowledge and the production of meaning: Greek vase imagery reconsidered -- 4. Images and storytelling -- . Part II. Interpretation and perception -- 5. The Alexander mosaid: stories of victory -- 6. Parapictoriality -- Part III. Reflections of the city and its craftsmen -- 7 Les images de la cit�e - the vase painter's gaze -- 8. Again: working scenes on Athenian vases - images between social values and aesthetic reality -- Part IV. Constructions of myth through images -- 9. Of gods and giants: myth and images in the making -- 10. The fabric of myth in ancient Glyptic -- 11. Greek coin iconography in context: eight specificities that differentiate them from other visual media -- Part V. Clay and stone: material matters -- 12. Paragone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek painting and sculpture -- 13. Communicating with the divine in marble and clay -- 14. The message is in the medium: white-ground lekythoi and stone grave markers in classical Athens -- 15. Greek archaic figurative terracottas: from identification to function -- 16. Images in dialogue: picturing identities in boiotian stone, clay, and metal -- 17. Images of drinking and laughing: vessels and votives in the Theban kabirion -- 18. Beyond ceramics and stone: the iconography of the precious -- Part VI. Honoring the dead -- 19. Archaic grave monuments: body or stele? -- 20. On vases, terracottas, and bones: how to read funerary assemblages from sixth- and fifth-century Greece -- 21. Winged figures and mortals at a crossroad -- About the contributors -- Bibliography -- Index of objects -- Subject index.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
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Language Note:	In English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed 26. Apr 2022).