Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-545) and index.
Contents:
21. Winged figures and mortals at a crossroad / 1. Ways of making sense : eagle and snake in archaic and classical Greek art / Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell. 2. Images and history in eighth and seventh century B.C. Athens : a discursive analytical approach / Annette Haug -- 3. Knowledge and the production of meaning : Greek vase-imagery reconsidered / Martina Seifert -- 4. Images and storytelling / Luca Giuliani -- Part II. Interpretation and perception -- 5. The Alexander mosaic : stories of victory / Mauro Menichetti -- 6. Parapictoriality / Adrian Staehli -- Part III. Reflections of the city and its craftsmen -- 7. Les images de la cite ; the vase painter’s gaze / Dyfri Williams -- 8. Again : working scenes on Athenian vases : images between social values and aesthetic reality / Tonio Holscher -- Part IV. Constructions of myth through images -- 9. Of gods and giants : myth and images in the making / Marion Meyer -- 10. The fabric of myth in ancient glyptic / Veronique Dasen -- 11. Greek coin iconography in context : eight specificities that differentiate them from other visual media / Francʹois de Callatay -- Part V. Clay and stone : material matters -- 12. Paragone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek painting and sculpture / Andrew Stewart -- 13. Communicating with the divine in marble and clay / H.A. Shapiro -- 14. The message is in the medium : white-ground lekythoi and stone grave markers in classical Athens / Judith M. Barringer -- 15. Greek figurative terracottas of the archaic period : problematic images? From identification to meaning and function / Arthur Muller -- 16. Images in dialogue : picturing identities in Boiotian stone, clay, and metal / Victoria Sabetai -- 17. Images of drinking and laughing : vessels and votives in the Theban kabirion / Stefan Schmidt -- 18. Beyond ceramics and stone : the iconography of the precious / Ken Lapatin -- Part VI. Honoring the dead -- 19. Archaic grave reliefs : body or stele? / Nikolaus Dietrich -- 20. On vases, terracottas, and bones : how to read funerary assemblages from sixth- and fifth-century Greece / Dimitri Paleothodoros -- 21. Winged figures and mortals at a crossroad / Mark Stansbury-O’Donnell.
Summary:
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 resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.