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The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today. It provides an up-to-date evaluation of ways of studying Greek pottery and encourages new approaches.
There is a detailed analysis of the subject matter of figured scenes covering some of the main preoccupations of ancient Greece: myth, fantasy and everyday life. Furthermore, it sets the artefacts in the context of the societies that produced them, highlighting the social, art historical, mythological and economic information that can be revealed from their study.
This volume also covers a hitherto neglected area: the history of the collecting of Greek pottery through the Renaissance and up to the present day. It shows how market values have gradually increased to the high prices of today and goes on to take a closer look at the enthusiasm of the collectors.

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  1. ISBN-10
    0415126614
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0415126618
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publication date
    March 28, 1996
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    8.5 x 0.53 x 11 inches
  7. Print length
    232 pages
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'Finally a readable introduction to greek ? and price reasonable for ?' - L Palmquist, Stockholm University, Sweden

'Professor Sparkes takes a refreshing, innovative, and often entertaining view of the subject ... this book is alive with ideas, new thoughts, interesting parallels ... Professor Sparkes's book is a 'must' for anyone interested in Greek pots, be they scholar, collector, amateur or simply interested layman. It opens new doors and lets refreshing gusts in through opened windows.' - Minerva

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The Red and the Black covers the major stages in the history of Greek pottery production, both figured and plain, as they are understood today.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (March 28, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415126614
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415126618
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.53 x 11 inches
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This is a charming book. It is written in a fun, almost conversational style. It treats the history of how Greek pottery has been studied and viewed by Western scholarship. It contains anecdotes and stories that make the reader feel more connected with the art than do the usual dry, art-historical, descriptive books. Thank goodness it does not read like somebody's dissertation for a change. The author has a sense of humor and delightful candor about the subject, and the reader will still learn a good quantity of useful art historical information without the usual suffering of tedium so often encountered in books on this subject.
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