Vessels: The Object as Container

ISBN-13: 9780198832577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 208 str.

Claudia Brittenham

Recenzje

Innovative ... four authors discuss different sorts of objects as 'containers' – Attic pots, Roman cosmetic caskets, anthropomorphic Mayan vases, and 'ritual vessels in a fourth century BCE Chinese tomb'.

O autorze

Claudia Brittenham is Associate Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the art of Mesoamerica, especially Central Mexico and the Maya area, with particular interests in the materiality of art and the politics of style. She is the author of The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2015), The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak (University of Texas Press, 2013; co-authored with Mary Miller), and Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color (University of Texas Press, 2009; co-authored with Stephen Houston, Cassandra Mesick, Alexandre Tokovinine, and Christina Warinner).