Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting - The World of Mythological Burlesque

This book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The dramatic, artistic, religious and social context of humour; 3. Strange beginnings; 4. Violating the sanctuary; 5. Ridiculing the gods; 6. Subverting the hero; 7. Distorted bodies; do the 'uglies' have the last laugh?; 8. Distribution: being in with the 'in-crowd'; 9. Final reflections: the world reversed.

About the author

David Walsh is a Visiting Research Scholar in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester.

Product details

• Authors: David Walsh, David (University of Manchester) Walsh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107669659
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66965-9
• No. of pages: 445
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; ART / Ceramics, Ancient Greece, Ceramic arts, pottery, glass, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Glass, History of Art, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Classical style, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ceramics, mosaic and glass: artworks