Pots & plays : interactions between tragedy and Greek vase-painting of the fourth century B.C. / Oliver Taplin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taplin, Oliver.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vase-painting, Greek--Themes, motives.

Vase-painting, Greek.

Theater in art.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Illustrations.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 309 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Pots and plays

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2007]

Summary:

This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen the myths enacted in the popular new medium of tragedy. The pots do not, it is argued, show the plays as such, but gain depth and complexity from recalling the tragic vision of particular stage-versions, including those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and, above all, Euripides. Of some 300 relevant vases, 109 are reproduced and accompanied by a picture-by-picture discussion. Nearly half of these were discovered since 1970, and most have not been thoroughly discussed in relation to tragedy before. The vases are organized by playwright and by the tragedy invoked. Apart from its challenging ideas about the significance of Tragedy for the Greeks, this book supplies a rich and unprecedented resource from a neglected treasury of painting.

Contents:

Setting the scenes

The pots

Vases that may be related to Aeschylus

Vases that may be related to Sophocles

Vases that may be related to surviving plays by Euripides

Vases that may be related to fragmentary plays by Euripides

Vases that may be related to otherwise unknown tragedies

Vase concordance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-301) and index.

ISBN:

9780892368075

0892368071

OCLC:

73926989