Drawing the Greek Vase

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Caspar Meyer (Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center, New York) Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Senior Lecturer in Classics, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews)

Drawing the Greek Vase

Caspar Meyer (Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture, Bard Graduate Center, New York), Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Senior Lecturer in Classics, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews)

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Oxford University Press
16 May 2023

History of art: ancient & classical art; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology

Series: Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series

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.

Edited by: Caspar Meyer (Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture Bard Graduate Center New York), Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Senior Lecturer in Classics, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 252mm, Width: 196mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 952g
ISBN: 9780192856128
ISBN 10: 019285612X
Series: Visual Conversations in Art and Archaeology Series
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis: Introduction 2: Caspar Meyer: Why Drawing Still Matters: Connecting Hands and Minds in the Study of Greek Vases 3: Amy C. Smith: Winckelmann's Elegant Simplicity: From Three to Two Dimensions and Back Again 4: Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis: The Graphic Medium and Artistic Style: Thomas Hope (1769-1831) and Two-Dimensional Encounters with Greek Vases 5: Milette Gaifman: The Flattened Greek Vase 6: Marie-Amélie Bernard: Images of Greek Vases as a Basis for a Scientific Archaeology: Investigating the Archival Legacy of the Gerhard'scher Apparat's Drawings 7: Katharina Lorenz: Volume and Scale: Adolf Furtwängler and Karl Reichhold's Hervorragende Vasenbilder and the Study of Visual Narrative on Late Fifth-Century Vases 8: Athena Tsingarida: Drawing as an Instrument of Connoisseurship: J. D. Beazley and his Late-Nineteenth-Century Forerunners 9: Kate Morton: Drawing the Greek Vase: A British Museum Illustrator's Perspective 10: Nikolaus Dietrich: Drawing vs Photography: On the Gains and Losses of Technical Innovation 11: Vinnie Nørskov: The Use of Photographs in the Trade of Greek Vases 12: Caspar Meyer: Afterword

Caspar Meyer is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. His research focuses on the cultural dynamics of craft production in the Aegean city states and among the mobile pastoralists of Eurasia. Another area of interest is the history of the instruments and media which archaeologists have developed to aid the transformation of artefacts into written explanations. He previously taught in London and held research fellowships at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris. He is editor of W86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of St Andrews. She has published Truly beyond Wonders: Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios (OUP 2010) and many articles on religion, travel, and the body in the Greek world of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. She also works on the reception of Classical material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe, and has edited The Classical Vase Transformed: Consumption, Reproduction, and Class in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (OUP 2020) with E. Hall.

Reviews for Drawing the Greek Vase

This edited volume, handsomely produced, comprises twelve chapters by ten contributors, including four from the editors. Its subject is the enduring practice, stretching back to the 1500s, of illustrating Greek vases... anyone who enjoys Greek vases - as this reviewer does - is likely to find pleasure and insight in both the text and the many illuminating illustrations. * Tony Spawforth, Classics for All * Drawing the Greek Vase, looks at the evolution of techniques used to record the images on Greek vases. The papers move chronologically through the history of recording these vases from the seventeenth century to today. * Greece & Rome * The volume, by mining four centuries of reproductions of Greek vases and examining their genesis, points the way to an array of avenues for future inquiry. * Najee Olya, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *