Jeffrey M. Hurwit

Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Greeks inscribed their works of art and craft with labels identifying mythological or historical figures, bits of poetry, and claims of ownership. But no type of inscription is more hotly debated or more intriguing than the artist's signature, which raises questions concerning the role and status of the artist and the work of art or craft itself. In this book, Jeffrey M. Hurwit surveys the phenomenon of artists' signatures across the many genres of Greek art from the eighth to the first century BCE. Although the great majority of extant works lack signatures, the Greek artist nonetheless signed his products far more than any other artist of antiquity. Examining signatures on gems, coins, mosaics, wall-paintings, metalwork, vases, and sculptures, Hurwit argues that signatures help us assess the position of the Greek artist within his society as well as his conception of his own skill and originality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316349519
• Artikelnr.: 43808207

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey M. Hurwit is Philip H. Knight Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Oregon. He is the author of books including The Acropolis in the Age of Pericles (Cambridge, 2004) and The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 BC (1985). He has taught in Siena, Italy and Athens, Greece and has lectured widely across the United States and Europe. He was Martha S. Joukowsky Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America in 2000-1 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1987-8.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. On the Status, Originality, and Difference of the Greek Artist: 1. Euthykartides' toes: signatures and the status of the Greek artist
2. Greek exceptionalism in the ancient world
Part II. Who Signed What, Where, How?: 3. Gems
4. Coins
5. Architecture
6. Wall- and panel-painting
7. Mosaics
8. Vases
9. Metalwork
10. Sculpture
Part III. Speculation: 11. Why?
Glossary
Appendix: ancient sources.