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.
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120 black and white illustrations, 170 colour illustrations
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
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978-1-4744-8737-5 (9781474487375)
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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)).
François Lissarrague is Directeur d'études Emeritus at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. His extensive publications on images, particularly vase painting, include La cité des images 1984, Un flot d'images: Une esthétique du banquet grec (1987); L'autre guerrier: Archers, peltastes, cavaliers dans l'imagerie attique (1990); Héros et dieux de l'antiquité Guide iconographique (1994, co-authored with I. Aghion and C. Barbillon); Vases Grecs. Les Athéniens et leurs images (1999); La cité des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athènes VIe-Ve siècle avantJ.-C.), (2013). His works have been translated into English, German and Italian.
