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Papers on the Amasis Painter and His World: Colloquium sponsored by the Getty Center for the History and Art and the Humanities and Symposium J. Paul Getty Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1987
208 pp. with many photos. This book explains the work, life, and times of one of the most famous Attic vase painters. The contents of the book include: a Director's Foreword - Preface - Abbreviations - The State of Attic Vase-Painting in the Mid-Sixth Century (Martin Robertson) - Narrative, Genre, and Realism in the Work of the Amasis Painter (Andrew F. Stewart) - The Making of Homer in the Sixth Century B.C.: Rhapsodes versus Stesichoros (Walter Burkett) - Reflections of Architecture in Sixth Century Attic Vase-Painting (John Griffiths Pedley) - Sculpture and Painter in Archaic Athens (Brunilde S. Ridgway) - Myth Visualized: Dionysos and His Circle in Sixth Century Attic Vase-Painting (Albert Henrichs) - Amasis and the Vase Trade (Alan W. Johnston) - Amasis: The Implication of His Name (John Boardman) - The Amasis Painter and Exekias: Approaches to Narrative (Mary B. Moore) - The Amasis Painter: Artist and Tradition (Joan R. Mertens) - Greek Vase-Painting: 200 years of Connoisseurship (Dietrich von Bothmer) - and an Index.
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