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Format: 1 online resource (298 pages).

ISBN: 978-0-226-02590-2

Content: On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece-but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients.   Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. He reveals that developments in Greek vase painting were driven as much by the times as they were by tradition-the better-known the story, the less leeway the artists had in interpreting it. As literary culture transformed from an oral tradition, in which stories were always in flux, to the stability of written texts, the images produced by artists eventually became nothing more than illustrations of canonical works. At once a work of cultural and art history, Image and Myth builds a new way of understanding the visual culture of ancient Greece

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Giuliani, Luca Image and Myth : A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2013 ISBN 9780226297651

Language: English

Keywords: Vasenmalerei ; Mythos ; Ikonographie

Author information: Giuliani, Luca, 1950-,

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 335 S.) : , Ill.

ISBN: 9780226025902

Uniform Title: Bild und Mythos

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Language: English

Keywords: Vasenmalerei ; Mythos ; Ikonographie

Author information: Giuliani, Luca 1950-

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Format: 1 online resource (630 p.)

ISBN: 0-226-02590-X , 0-226-29766-7

Uniform Title: Bild und Mythos.

Content: On museum visits, we pass by beautiful, well-preserved vases from ancient Greece-but how often do we understand what the images on them depict? In Image and Myth, Luca Giuliani tells the stories behind the pictures, exploring how artists of antiquity had to determine which motifs or historical and mythic events to use to tell an underlying story while also keeping in mind the tastes and expectations of paying clients. Covering the range of Greek style and its growth between the early Archaic and Hellenistic periods, Giuliani describes the intellectual, social, and artistic contexts in which the images were created. He reveals that developments in Greek vase painting were driven as much by the times as they were by tradition-the better-known the story, the less leeway the artists had in interpreting it. As literary culture transformed from an oral tradition, in which stories were always in flux, to the stability of written texts, the images produced by artists eventually became nothing more than illustrations of canonical works. At once a work of cultural and art history, Image and Myth builds a new way of understanding the visual culture of ancient Greece.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface: The Pictorial Deluge and the Study of Visual Culture -- , 1. Images and Texts Compared: A Diagnosis of Contrasts -- , 2. Images of the World: The Eighth Century -- , 3. The Advent of Pictorial Narratives in the Seventh Century -- , 4. Playing with Writing in the Eighth, Seventh, and Sixth Centuries -- , 5. Directing the Gaze in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries -- , 6. Images in the Pull of Text: From the Fifth to the Fourth Century -- , 7. Pictures for Readers: The Birth of the Illustration in the Second Century -- , 8. Looking Back: Pitfalls and Nodes -- , Appendix -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Name & Subject Index -- , Index of Ancient Greek Artworks , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-226-29765-9

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-299-61942-8

Language: English

DOI: 10.7208/9780226025902