Images at the Crossroads
Media and Meaning in Greek Art
Published on 10. March 2022
Book
Hardback
584 pages
978-1-4744-8736-8 (ISBN)
Description
New studies on the interaction of various media in ancient Greek art
This 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.
This 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.
Reviews / Votes
Images at the Crossroads is a truly remarkable publication in whole and in its parts, which stands to have a major impact on future research on the interpretation of images from antiquity. It is ground-breaking in its scope and depth of analysis, and, with its strong emphasis on sociocultural and sociohistorical approaches, constitutes a most appropriate homage to Francois Lissarrague's enduring scholarly heritage. -- Anne Mackay, University of Auckland * Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Academic libraries should not be without a copy, and general readers cannot help but be infected by the vitality, enthusiasm and excitement which most of its contributors convey. -- David Stuttard * Classics for All * The merit of this collection is to offer shared knowledge about the world of images in ancient Greece. All types of representations are studied, in a comparative vision which places the image at the heart of the interpretation, providing a comparative panorama of the multiple fields of iconographic research in the ancient Greek world. -- Professor Alain Schnapp, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, Universite Paris 1More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
120 black and white illustrations, 170 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1231 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8736-8 (9781474487368)
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Persons
Judith M. Barringer is Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Divine Escorts: Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1995); The Hunt in Ancient Greece (2001); Art, Myth, Ritual in Classical Greece (2008), the award-winning The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (2014) and Olympia: A Cultural History (Princeton UP 2021). Francois Lissarrague is Directeur d'etudes Emeritus at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His extensive publications on images, particularly vase painting, include La cite des images 1984,Un flot d'images: Une esthetique du banquet grec (1987); L'autre guerrier: Archers, peltastes, cavaliers dans l'imagerie attique (1990); Heros et dieux de l'antiquite: Guide iconographique (1994, co-authored with I. Aghion and C. Barbillon); Vases Grecs. Les Atheniens et leurs images (1999); La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes VIe-Ve siecle avantJ.-C.), (2013). His works have been translated into English, German and Italian.
Content
List of Illustrations v
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction 1
I. Making Meaning: How Do Images Work? 13
1. Francois Lissarrague
Ways of Making Sense: Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art 14
2. Annette Haug
Images and History in Eighth and Seventh Century B.C. Athens: A Discursive Analytical Approach 40
3. Martina Seifert
Knowledge and the Production of Meaning: Greek Vase-Imagery Reconsidered 63
4. Luca Giuliani
Images and Storytelling 82
II. Interpretation and Perception 103
5. Mauro Menichetti
The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory 104
6. Adrian Staehli
Parapictoriality 117
III. Reflections of the City and Its Craftsmen 137
7. Dyfri Williams
Les Images de la Cite - The Vase Painter's Gaze 138
8. Tonio Hoelscher
Again: Working Scenes on Athenian Vases-Images between Social Values and Aesthetic Reality 203
IV. Constructions of Myth Through Images 226
9. Marion Meyer
Of Gods and Giants: Myth and Images in the Making 227
10. Veronique Dasen
The Fabric of Myth in Ancient Glyptic 252
11. Francois de Callatay
Greek Coin Iconography in Context: Eight Specificities that Differentiate Them from Other Visual Media 275
V. Clay and Stone: Material Matters 294
12. Andrew Stewart
Paragone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek Painting and Sculpture 295
13. H.A. Shapiro
Communicating with the Divine in Marble and Clay 328
14. Judith M. Barringer
The Message is in the Medium: White-Ground Lekythoi and Stone Grave Markers in Classical Athens 363
15. Arthur Muller
Greek Figurative Terracottas of the Archaic Period: Problematic Images? From Identification to Meaning and Function 378
16. Victoria Sabetai
Images in Dialogue: Picturing Identities in Boiotian Stone, Clay, and Metal 398
17. Stefan Schmidt
Images of Drinking and Laughing: Vessels and Votives in the Theban Kabirion 430
18. Ken Lapatin
Beyond Ceramics and Stone: The Iconography of the Precious 461
VI. Honoring the Dead 477
19. Nikolaus Dietrich
Archaic Grave Reliefs: Body or Stele? 478
20. Dimitri Paleothodoros
On Vases, Terracottas, and Bones: How to Read Funerary Assemblages from Sixth- and Fifth-Century Greece 508
21. Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell
Winged Figures and Mortals at a Crossroad 526
About the Contributors 547
Bibliography 551
Index 674
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction 1
I. Making Meaning: How Do Images Work? 13
1. Francois Lissarrague
Ways of Making Sense: Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art 14
2. Annette Haug
Images and History in Eighth and Seventh Century B.C. Athens: A Discursive Analytical Approach 40
3. Martina Seifert
Knowledge and the Production of Meaning: Greek Vase-Imagery Reconsidered 63
4. Luca Giuliani
Images and Storytelling 82
II. Interpretation and Perception 103
5. Mauro Menichetti
The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory 104
6. Adrian Staehli
Parapictoriality 117
III. Reflections of the City and Its Craftsmen 137
7. Dyfri Williams
Les Images de la Cite - The Vase Painter's Gaze 138
8. Tonio Hoelscher
Again: Working Scenes on Athenian Vases-Images between Social Values and Aesthetic Reality 203
IV. Constructions of Myth Through Images 226
9. Marion Meyer
Of Gods and Giants: Myth and Images in the Making 227
10. Veronique Dasen
The Fabric of Myth in Ancient Glyptic 252
11. Francois de Callatay
Greek Coin Iconography in Context: Eight Specificities that Differentiate Them from Other Visual Media 275
V. Clay and Stone: Material Matters 294
12. Andrew Stewart
Paragone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek Painting and Sculpture 295
13. H.A. Shapiro
Communicating with the Divine in Marble and Clay 328
14. Judith M. Barringer
The Message is in the Medium: White-Ground Lekythoi and Stone Grave Markers in Classical Athens 363
15. Arthur Muller
Greek Figurative Terracottas of the Archaic Period: Problematic Images? From Identification to Meaning and Function 378
16. Victoria Sabetai
Images in Dialogue: Picturing Identities in Boiotian Stone, Clay, and Metal 398
17. Stefan Schmidt
Images of Drinking and Laughing: Vessels and Votives in the Theban Kabirion 430
18. Ken Lapatin
Beyond Ceramics and Stone: The Iconography of the Precious 461
VI. Honoring the Dead 477
19. Nikolaus Dietrich
Archaic Grave Reliefs: Body or Stele? 478
20. Dimitri Paleothodoros
On Vases, Terracottas, and Bones: How to Read Funerary Assemblages from Sixth- and Fifth-Century Greece 508
21. Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell
Winged Figures and Mortals at a Crossroad 526
About the Contributors 547
Bibliography 551
Index 674