Red-Figure Pottery in Its Ancient Setting (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788771240511)

What happened when Athenian pottery reached other cultural contexts and was absorbed into indigenous communities around or outside Greece? How did the various contexts influence the adaption of Athenian iconography and does the setting add to an understanding of how Athenian iconographic themes were altered or absorbes as they entered into new cultural contexts? To highlight these interpretative challenges the National Museum of Denmark in 2009 stages the colloquium "Red-figure Pottery in its Ancient Setting" and invited a group of specialists to present cases from within their areas of research which would serve to enhance our understanding of the great range of the character and value of red-figure pottery and its imagery whether in local Greek, a colonial Greek, en Etruscan or any other indigenous community. The various cases presented in these proceedings of the colloquium clearly demonstrate that this approach to the study of Greek pottery and its imagery has much to offer.

Author: Bodil Bundgaard Rasmussen
ISBN-10: 8771240519
ISBN-13: 9788771240511
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2012
Pages: 180
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.70h x 8.90w x 0.60d