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Informationen zum Autor Kristen Seaman is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Classics at the University of Oregon. Educated at Yale University, Connecticut and the University of California, Berkeley, she was a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and carried out additional archaeological training at the American Academy in Rome. She also has done archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Israel, Italy, and the United States, and has studied the practice of stone-carving. Her research deals with Greek art and architecture and its interaction with the Roman, Near Eastern, and Islamic worlds. She has received several fellowships, including funding from the Fulbright Foundation, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY). Peter Schultz is an archaeologist, conservationist, and entrepreneur. He is the former Olin J. Storvick Chair of Classical Studies at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota and Scholar in Residence at North Dakota State University's Department of Visual Arts. He took his Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Athens in 2003. He is the co-editor of Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context (Cambridge, 2007), Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult: Ritual, Context, Iconography (2009), Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World (2009), Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (with Kristen Seaman, Cambridge, 2016), and the author of numerous articles on ancient Greek art and culture. Klappentext Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece questions many long-held ideas and provides a deeper understanding of particular artists and architects. Zusammenfassung Incorporating novel approaches and neglected evidence! Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece questions many long-held ideas and provides a deeper understanding of particular artists and architects! their works! and their social agency. The authors refer to historiography as well as to modern theory! while offering new directions for research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Peter Schultz and Kristen Seaman; 1. Introduction: Greek artists, yesterday and today Kristen Seaman; 2. The social and educational background of elite Greek artists Kristen Seaman; 3. Portrait of an artist: Euthymides, son of Pollias Jenifer Neils; 4. Kritios and Nesiotes: two revolutionaries in context Andrew Stewart; 5. Craft identity: mosaics in the Hellenistic East S. Rebecca Martin; 6. Artistic choice and constraint on coins Isabelle A. Pafford; 7. Constructing architects: the so-called 'Theseum architect' Margaret M. Miles; 8. Euphranor Olga Palagia; 9. Politics and personality?: the case of Kephisodotos the Younger Peter Schultz; 10. Artists' signatures on archaic Greek vases from Athens Sarah Bolmarcich and Georgina Muskett; 11. Response: reflections on identity, personality, and originality Jeffrey M. Hurwit....
