Master of Attic Black Figure Painting

The Art and Legacy of Exekias

Dr Elizabeth Moignard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19736-7 (ISBN)

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The great 6th-century BCE Attic potter-painter Exekias is acclaimed as the most accomplished exponent of late 'black-figure' art. His vases, vessels, bowls and amphorae are reproduced on postcards and in other media all over the world. Despite his importance in the history of art and archaeology, little has been written about Exekias in his own right. Elizabeth Moignard, a leading historian of classical art, here corrects that neglect by addressing her subject as more than just a painter. She positions Exekias as a remarkable but nevertheless grounded and receptive man of his age, working in an Athens that was sensitive to Homeric literature and drawing on that great corpus of poetry to explore its own emerging concepts of honour, heroism, leadership and military tradition. Discussing a range of ceramic pieces, Moignard illustrates their impact and meaning, deconstructing iconic images like the suicide of Ajax; the voyage of Dionysus surrounded by dolphins; and the killing by Achilles of the Amazon queen Penthesilea. This book is the most complete introduction to its subject to be published in English.

Elizabeth Moignard is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in Classics and the History of Art at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of fascicles 16 and 18 of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, covering the Edinburgh Collection, the Hunterian Museum, the Burrell Collection, and Kelvingrove Museum.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	74 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	183 x 241 mm
Gewicht	416 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
ISBN-10	1-350-19736-X / 135019736X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19736-7 / 9781350197367
Zustand	Neuware