Read Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

Alexandre G. Mitchell

4.9/5 (33571 ratings)

Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. To get started finding Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0521513707

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour. To get started finding Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

More Books

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour by Alexandre G. Mitchell (2012-07-09)

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour by Alexandre G. Mitchell (2012-07-09)

L'errant sans tête: Recueil de poèmes (French Edition)

L'errant sans tête: Recueil de poèmes (French Edition)

Francesca: et autres nouvelles (French Edition)

Francesca: et autres nouvelles (French Edition)

13番目の石板下 (竹書房文庫)

13番目の石板下 (竹書房文庫)

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour

More Books

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour by Alexandre G. Mitchell (2012-07-09)

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour by Alexandre G. Mitchell (2012-07-09)

L'errant sans tête: Recueil de poèmes (French Edition)

L'errant sans tête: Recueil de poèmes (French Edition)

Francesca: et autres nouvelles (French Edition)

Francesca: et autres nouvelles (French Edition)

13番目の石板 下 (竹書房文庫)

13番目の石板 下 (竹書房文庫)

13番目の石板下 (竹書房文庫)

13番目の石板下 (竹書房文庫)