Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-934391
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Innovative ... four authors discuss different sorts of objects as 'containers' - Attic pots, Roman cosmetic caskets, anthropomorphic Mayan vases, and 'ritual vessels in a fourth century BCE Chinese tomb'., "Innovative ... four authors discuss different sorts of objects as 'containers' 'e" Attic pots, Roman cosmetic caskets, anthropomorphic Mayan vases, and 'ritual vessels in a fourth century BCE Chinese tomb'." -- Michael Squire, Greece & Rome, "Innovative ... four authors discuss different sorts of objects as 'containers' DS Attic pots, Roman cosmetic caskets, anthropomorphic Mayan vases, and 'ritual vessels in a fourth century BCE Chinese tomb'." -- Michael Squire, Greece & Rome, "Innovative ... four authors discuss different sorts of objects as 'containers' - Attic pots, Roman cosmetic caskets, anthropomorphic Mayan vases, and 'ritual vessels in a fourth century BCE Chinese tomb'." -- Michael Squire, Greece & Rome
CLASSIFICATION_METADATA
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Dewey Decimal
930.1
Table Of Content
FrontmatterList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction1. Ancient Greek Vessels between Sea, Earth, and Clouds2. A Roman Vessel for Cosmetics: Form, Decoration, and Subjectivity in the Muse Casket3. When Pots Had Legs: Body Metaphors on Maya Vessels4. Practice and Discourse: Ritual Vessels in a Fourth-Century BCE Chinese TombEndmatterIndex
Synopsis
Vessels can take many forms: as objects made for human interaction and handling, they both contain and are bounded by space. They can be constructed of a wide variety of materials. But the range of vessels - across history and across cultures - are unified in their potential for practical functioning, whether or not a particular object is in fact made to be used in its particular context. In this volume, four essays by leading scholars tackle the category of the vessel in a comparative conversation between classical Greece, late antique Rome, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and ancient China. By considering the material properties of the object as container, the interactions between user and artefact, and the power of the vessel as both conceptual category and material metaphor, they argue that many vessels - and assemblages of vessels - were sites of remarkable workmanship and considerable ingenuity, smart and sophisticated commentaries on the very categories that they embody. In placing these individual case studies in dialogue, the volume offers an art historical and cross-cultural study of vessels in ancient societies, considering both objects and their archaeological contexts. Its aim is to make illuminating comparisons, contrasts, and interpretations by juxtaposing traditions. In keeping with the aims of the series, it serves as a model for a new kind of comparative art history, one which emphasizes material culture and is attentive to questions of evidence and method, yet remains historically grounded and contextually sensitive., What is a vessel? As objects made for human interaction and handling, both containing and bounded by space, vessels can take many forms and be constructed of a wide variety of materials. However, they are all unified in signifying a potential for practical functioning, whether or not a particular object is in fact used in this way in its particular context. In this second volume in the Visual Conversations in Art & Archaeology series, and the first in the Center for Global Ancient Art sub-series, four essays by leading scholars tackle the category of vessels in ancient Greece, late antique Rome, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and ancient China. By considering the material properties of the object as container, the interactions between user and vessel, and the power of the vessel as both a conceptual category and material metaphor, they argue that many vessels - and assemblages of vessels - were in their own time sites of considerable intellectual power, smart and sophisticated commentaries on the very categories that they embody. In collecting these individual case studies together, the volume offers an art historical and cross-cultural study of vessels from ancient societies, drawing illuminating comparisons and interpretations between traditions. In keeping with the aims of the series, it serves as a model for a new kind of comparative art history, one which emphasizes material culture and is attentive to questions of evidence and method, yet remains historically grounded and contextually sensitive., What is a vessel? In this volume, four essays by leading scholars tackle the category of the vessel in a comparative conversation between ancient Greece, Rome, China, and pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, offering an innovative art history of a particular class of object in ancient societies.
LC Classification Number
GN436.8
Copyright Date
2019
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