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In his new book, Professor Martin Robertson – author of A History of Greek Art (CUP 1975) and A Shorter History of Greek Art (CUP 1981) – draws together the results of a lifetime’s study of Greek vase-painting, tracing the history of figure-drawing on Athenian pottery from the invention of the ‘red-figure’ technique in the later archaic period to the abandonment of figured vase-decoration two hundred years later. The book covers red-figure and also work produced over the same period in the same workshops in black-figure and other techniques, especially that of drawing in outline on a white ground. The book is intended as a companion volume to Sir John Beazley’s The Development of Attic Black-figure (originally published in 1951 by California University Press), and as an examination and defence of Beazley’s methods and achievements. This book is a major contribution to the history of Greek vase-painting and anyone seriously interested in the subject – whether scholar, student, curator, collector or amateur – will find it essential reading.
- Author: Martin Robertson
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Published: 1992
- Pages: 372
- ISBN-13: 9780521338813
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