Images at the Crossroads: Media and Meaning in Greek Art

by: Barringer, J.M. Lissarrague, F.

New studies on the interaction of various media in ancient Greek art
This collection includes twenty-one new essays by leading scholars in the field of Greek art and archaeology. Exploring a range of media including vase painting, sculpture, gems and coins, they each address questions that cross the boundaries of specialised fields.

They outline the range of visual experiences at stake in the various media used in antiquity and shed light on the specificities of each medium. They show how meaning is produced, according to the nature of the medium: its use, context and enunciative structure. Also explored are the different methodologies used to produce meaning: how do images ?make?, or create, sense to their ancient viewers and how can we now access those meanings?

This richly illustrated volume offers new interpretations and arguments concerning fundamental questions in the field which expands our knowledge and understanding of Greek art, patrons and viewers.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Making Meaning: How Do Images Work?: 1. François Lissarrague, Ways of Making Sense: Eagle and Snake in Archaic and Classical Greek Art
2. Annette Haug, Images and History in Eighth and Seventh Century B.C. Athens: A Discursive Analytical Approach
3. Martina Seifert, Knowledge and the Production of Meaning: Greek Vase-Imagery Reconsidered 63
4. Luca Giuliani
Images and Storytelling
II. Interpretation and Perception: 5. Mauro Menichetti, The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory
6. Adrian Staehli, Parapictoriality
III. Reflections of the City and Its Craftsmen: 7. Dyfri Williams, Les Images de la Cité - The Vase Painter?s Gaze
8. Tonio Hölscher, Again: Working Scenes on Athenian Vases—Images between Social Values and Aesthetic Reality
IV. Constructions of Myth Through Images: 9. Marion Meyer, Of Gods and Giants: Myth and Images in the Making
10. Véronique Dasen, The Fabric of Myth in Ancient Glyptic
11. François de Callataÿ, Greek Coin Iconography in Context: Eight Specificities that Differentiate Them from Other Visual Media
V. Clay and Stone: Material Matters
12. Andrew Stewart, Paragone? Xenophon, Sokrates, and Quintilian on Greek Painting and Sculpture
13. H.A. Shapiro, Communicating with the Divine in Marble and Clay
14. Judith M. Barringer, The Message is in the Medium: White-Ground Lekythoi and Stone Grave Markers in Classical Athens
15. Arthur Muller, Greek Figurative Terracottas of the Archaic Period: Problematic Images? From Identification to Meaning and Function
16. Victoria Sabetai, Images in Dialogue: Picturing Identities in Boiotian Stone, Clay, and Metal
17. Stefan Schmidt, Images of Drinking and Laughing: Vessels and Votives in the Theban Kabirion
18. Ken Lapatin, Beyond Ceramics and Stone: The Iconography of the Precious
VI. Honoring the Dead: 19. Nikolaus Dietrich, Archaic Grave Reliefs: Body or Stele?
20. Dimitri Paleothodoros, On Vases, Terracottas, and Bones: How to Read Funerary Assemblages from Sixth- and Fifth-Century Greece
21. Mark Stansbury-O?Donnell, Winged Figures and Mortals at a Crossroad
About the Contributors
Bibliography
Index.

Images at the Crossroads: Media and Meaning in Greek Art

by: Barringer, J.M. Lissarrague, F.

• ISBN-13: 9781474487368 / 978-1-4744-8736-8
• ISBN-03: 147448736X / 1-4744-8736-X
• Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2022