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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour (Paperback)
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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour (Paperback)
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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 G. 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,
this study amply documents the comic representations that formed an
important part of ancient Greek visual language from the sixth to
the fourth centuries BC.
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