Vessels: The Object as Container

Herausgeber: Brittenham, Claudia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is a vessel? In this volume, four essays by leading scholars tackle the category of the vessel in a comparative conversation between ancient Greece, Rome, China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, offering an innovative art history of a particular class of object in ancient societies.

Produktdetails

• Visual Conversations in Art an
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 199mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780198832577
• ISBN-10: 0198832575
• Artikelnr.: 56253084

Autorenporträt

Claudia Brittenham is Associate Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the art of Mesoamerica, especially Central Mexico and the Maya area, with particular interests in the materiality of art and the politics of style. She is the author of The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2015), The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (University of Texas Press, 2013; co-authored with Mary Miller), and Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color (University of Texas Press, 2009; co-authored with Stephen Houston, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Christina Warinner).

Inhaltsangabe

* Frontmatter
* List of Illustrations
* List of Contributors
* 0: Claudia Brittenham with Jä Elsner: Introduction
* 1: Richard Neer: Ancient Greek Vessels between Sea, Earth, and Clouds
* 2: Jä Elsner: A Roman Vessel for Cosmetics: Form, Decoration, and
Subjectivity in the Muse Casket
* 3: Claudia Brittenham: When Pots Had Legs: Body Metaphors on Maya
Vessels
* 4: Wu Hung: Practice and Discourse: Ritual Vessels in a
Fourth-Century BCE Chinese Tomb
* Endmatter
* Index