The Art of Vase-Painting in Classical Athens Hardback
by Martin Robertson
Hardback
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In his new book, Professor Martin Robertson - author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) - draws together the results of a lifetime's study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the 'red-figure' technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later.
The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground.
The book is intended as a companion volume to Sir John Beazley's The Development of Attic Black-figure (originally published in 1951 by California University Press), and as an examination and defence of Beazley's methods and achievements.
This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject - whether scholar, student, curator, collector or amateur - will find it essential reading.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:362 pages, 300 half-tones
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/09/1992
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- ISBN:9780521330107
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:362 pages, 300 half-tones
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:17/09/1992
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521330107
