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Vessels : the object as container / edited by Claudia Brittenham.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Visual conversations in art and archaeology.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Visual conversations in art and archaeology
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Implements, utensils, etc.
- Material culture.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages).
- Edition:
- New product edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Ancient Greek vessels between sea, earth, and clouds / Richard Neer
- A Roman vessel for cosmetics: form, decoration, and subjectivity in the muse casket / Jas Elsner
- When pots had legs: body metaphors on Maya vessels / Claudia Brittenham
- Practice and discourse: ritual vessels in a fourth-century BCE Chinese tomb / Wu Hung.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-256873-6
- 0-19-191732-X
- 0-19-256872-8
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