The History of Greek Vases: potters, painters, and pictures

New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001. Hardcover. VG, mylar shows wear but did it's job. Ex-library, stamp and back flyleaf pocket. Mylar covered illustrated dj; black cloth covers, gilt lettering, tooled front art. 320 pages : illustrations. "In no other art of antiquity do we come closer to the visual experience of the ancient Greeks than through their finely-wrought pottery." "In this volume John Boardman explores the vases functions in Greek life and culture, and as messengers of style and subject. He relates the processes of identifying artists, the methods of making and decorating the vases, the artists lives and conduct in the potters' quarter in Greek towns, and the ways in which their wares were traded far beyond the borders of the Greek world, from Morocco to Persia, from Russia to the Sudan. Boardman demonstrates that the scenes figured on the vases reflected not simply on story-telling, but on the politics and social order of the day; moreover, they exercised a style of narrative in art that was to resonate throughout Western culture for centuries to come."--Jacket.
Contents: ch. 1. A history of Greek vases -- ch. 2. Connoisseurship -- ch. 3. Potters and painters -- ch. 4. Trade -- ch. 5. Pictures and painters I -- ch. 6. Pictures and painters II -- ch. 7. Greek vases in use -- ch. 8. Pottery and other arts -- ch. 9. Tricks of the trade -- ch. 10. Tools of the study.