Research Catalog

Title

Drawing the Greek vase / edited by Caspar Meyer and Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis.

Publication

• Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Meyer, Hans-Caspar, 1975-
• Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia

Description

xxi, 315 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 25 cm.

Summary

"How have two-dimensional images of ancient Greek vases shaped modern perceptions of these artefacts and of the classical past? This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the exploration of drawings, prints, and photographs of Greek vases in modernity. Case studies of the seventeenth to the twentieth century foreground ways that artists have depicted Greek vases in a range of styles and contexts within and beyond academia. Questions addressed include: how do these images translate three-dimensional ancient utilitarian objects with iconography central to the tradition of Western painting and decorative arts into two-dimensional graphic images carrying aesthetic and epistemic value? How does the embodied practice of drawing enable people to engage with Greek vases differently from museum viewers, and what insights does it offer on ancient producers and users? And how did the invention of photography impact the tradition of drawing Greek vases? The volume addresses art historians of the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, archaeologists and classical reception scholars"--

Series Statement

Visual conversations in art and archaeology

Uniform Title

Visual conversations in art and archaeology.

Subject

• Archaeological illustration > History
• Vases, Greek, in art
• Classical antiquities > Study and teaching > History
• Archaeological illustration
• Classical antiquities > Study and teaching
• Classical antiquities

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- 2. Why drawing still matters: connecting hands and minds in the study of Greek vases / Caspar Meyer -- 3. Winckelmann's elegant simplicity: from three to two dimensions and back again / Amy C. Smith -- 4. The graphic medium and artistic style: Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and two-dimensional encounters with Greek vases / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- 5. The flattened Greek vase / Milette Gaifman -- 6. Images of Greek vases as a basis for a scientific archaeology: investigating the archival legacy of the Gerhard'scher Apparat's drawings / Marie-Amélie Bernard -- 7. Volume and scale: Adolf Furtwängler and Karl Reichhold's Hervorragende Vasenbilder and the study of visual narrative on late fifth-century vases / Katharina Lorenz -- 8. Drawing as an instrument of connoisseurship: J. D. Beazley and his late-nineteenth-century forerunners / Athena Tsingarida -- 9. Drawing the Greek vase: a British Museum illustrator's perspective / Kate Morton -- 10. Drawing vs photography: on the gains and losses of technical innovation / Nikolaus Dietrich -- 11. The use of photographs in the trade of Greek vases / Vinnie Nørskov -- 12. Afterword / Caspar Meyer.

Call Number

JQF 24-485

ISBN

• 9780192856128
• 019285612X

OCLC

1374594526

Title

Drawing the Greek vase / edited by Caspar Meyer and Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Visual conversations in art and archaeology

Visual conversations in art and archaeology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Meyer, Hans-Caspar, 1975- editor.

Petsalis-Diomidis, Alexia, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Drawing the Greek vase. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023] 9780191946424 (OCoLC)1293848341

Research Call Number

JQF 24-485