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Author: John Boardman
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 450527

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.1 x 1

ISBN: 0500285934
Dewey Decimal Number: 738.30938
EAN: 9780500285930

Publication Date: November 30, 2006
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Condition: Good Condition, delivery time 10 to 12 Working days, via Priority airmail from UK

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
"Boardman gets down to the nitty-gritty of how and why potters created and decorated the vases, how their artistic quality developed and their influence spread."—Publishers Weekly

Greek pottery has long fascinated scholars and historians of art. It provides a continuous commentary on all other Greek arts, even sculpture, and the scenes figured on the vases can prove to be as subtle and informative as the great works of Greek literature.

In no other art of antiquity do we come closer to the visual experience of the ancient Greeks, or are we able to observe so clearly their views on life, myth, and even politics. John Boardman has demonstrated the stylistic history of Greek vases in other Thames & Hudson titles; as he writes, the subject "is a central one to classical archaeology and art, and dare not be ignored by students of any other ancient medium, or indeed of any other classical discipline."

Here Boardman sketches that history but goes on to explore many other matters that make the study so fruitful. He describes the processes of identifying artists, the methods of making and decorating the vases, the life of the potters' quarter in Greek towns, and the way in which the wares were traded far beyond the borders of the Greek world. Boardman shows how Greek artists exercised a style of narrative in art that was long influential in the West, and how their pictures reflected not simply on storytelling but also on the politics and social order of the day. 358 illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

An impression May 18, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Its a very good book, well documented. The only issue that is was important to improve, is to change at least some photos from Black and White to Color. Art documentation demands many times to see directly the pieces colors

5 out of 5 stars

clay pots of greece September 2, 2001
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

Though this adds to a field which has been dealt with before, the book presnts a fresh and insightful viewpoint. It will be valuable to all students of Greek history and chronolgy, and modern "pot throwers" everywhere.

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