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Greek Art in Context: Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Greek Art in Context Archaeological and Art Historical Perspectives

Edited By Diana Rodriguez Perez Copyright 2017
308 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages 67 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume gathers together selected contributions which were originally presented at the conference ‘Greek Art in Context’ at the University of Edinburgh in 2014. Its aim is to introduce the reader to the broad and multifaceted notion of context in relation to Greek art and, more specifically, to its relevance for the study of Greek sculpture and pottery from the Archaic to the Late Classical... Read more

List of Figures



Acknowledgments



List of Abbreviations



Notes on Contributors





Introductory Notes: Contextualizing Context



Diana Rodríguez Pérez





Part One – Location and the Find-spot







  1. Statues as Artifacts: Towards an Archaeology of Greek Sculpture




    2. Sheila Dillon and Tim Shea





  2. Itinerant Statues? The Portrait Landscape of the Athenian Agora




    3. Elizabeth Baltes





  3. New Perspectives in the Study of Pottery Assemblages from Settlements and their Cemeteries in Central Macedonia during the Archaic Period.




    4. Eleni Manakidou



    Part Two – Experiencing Material Culture





  4. Seeing the Parthenon Frieze: Notes from Nashville




    5. Rebecca Levitan and Bonna Wescoat





  5. Lost in Translation? Theoretical Implications of Considering Iconography in Context




    6. Winfred van de Put





  6. Volitional Reconsumption: Repetitive Vase Scenes in a Psychophysiological Context




    7. Katerina Volioti





  7. Reviewing Space, Context and Meaning: The Eurymedon Vase Again




    8. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones



    Part Three – Historical and Artistic Contexts





  8. Context of Contest: Athena, Poseidon and the Martyria in the West Pediment of the Parthenon




    9. Marion Meyer





  9. The Stoa of the Herms in Context: (Re)shaping Paradigms




    10. Matteo Zaccarini





  10. Not quite Pheidias. Status and Labour Specialisation in Athenian Sculpture




    11. Helle Hochscheid





  11. (Un)identifying Helen and Paris in Late Fifth Century BCA Athenian Vase Painting: How Context is Crucial




    12. Samantha Masters and Alexander Andrason





  12. Is there a Context Behind the Context? A Group of Apulian Red-Figure Vases in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg




    13. Frank Hildebrandt



    Part Four – Re-contextualization





  13. Contexts of Use of Fourth Century Attic Pottery in the Iberian Peninsula




    14. Carmen Sánchez Fernández





  14. The Reception of an Attic Prize Vessel. On the Import and Local Production of Amphorae of Panathenaic Shape in Southern Italy.




    15. Stine Schierup





  15. Greek Images and Local Identities in Lycia: The Case of the Heroon from Trysa




    16. Alice Landskron





  16. Ancient Art in a Museum Context: The Kent Collection of Greek and Cypriot Pottery in Harrogate




Sally Waite





List of References



Index

Biography

Diana Rodríguez Pérez is the current Junior Research Fellow Mougins Museum in Classical Art and Material Culture at Wolfson College, Oxford, and was previously the Research Assistant for the Beazley Archive Pottery Database at the Classical Art Research Centre.

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