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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,292
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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour (Hardcover, New): Alexandre G. Mitchell

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour (Hardcover, New)

Alexandre G. Mitchell

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This book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, with special emphasis on works created in Athens and Boeotia. Alexandre Mitchell brings an interdisciplinary approach to this topic, combining theories and methods of art history, archaeology, and classics with the anthropology of humour, and thereby establishing new ways of looking at art and visual humour in particular. Understanding what visual humour was to the ancients and how it functioned as a tool of social cohesion is only one facet of this study. Mitchell also focuses on the social truths that his study of humour unveils: democracy and freedom of expression, politics and religion, Greek vases and trends in fashion, market-driven production, proper and improper behaviour, popular versus elite culture, carnival in situ, and the place of women, foreigners, workers, and labourers within the Greek city. Richly illustrated with more than 140 drawings and photographs, as well as with analytical tables of comic representations according to different themes, painters, and techniques, this study amply documents the comic representations that formed an important part of ancient Greek visual language from the 6th through 4th centuries BC.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: August 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: Alexandre G. Mitchell
Dimensions: 260 x 186 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 398
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-51370-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Ceramic arts, pottery, glass > General
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LSN: 0-521-51370-7
Barcode: 9780521513708

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