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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age
A History

Author: Jean-Claude Poursat, University of Clermont-Ferrand
Translator: Carl Knappett, University of Toronto

Date Published: June 2022
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781108471343

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizations in human history. Jean-Claude Poursat's volume provides a clear path through the rich and varied art and archaeology of Aegean prehistory, from the Neolithic period down to the end of the Bronze Age. Charting the regional differences within the Aegean world, his study covers the full range of material evidence, including architecture, pottery, frescoes, metalwork, stone, and ivory, all lucidly arranged by chapter. With nearly 300 illustrations, this volume is one of the most lavishly illustrated treatments of the subject yet published. Suggestions for further reading provide an up-to-date entry point to the full richness of the subject. Originally published in French, and translated by the author's collaborator Carl Knappett, this edition makes Poursat's deep knowledge of the Aegean Bronze Age available to an English-language audience for the first time.
- The volume is fully comprehensive in terms of its chronological and geographical range
- This book is unique in its organized, chapter-by-chapter coverage of so many categories of material, from domestic and palatial buildings to funerary architecture, from everyday pottery to the finest metalwork
- The book has nearly 300 carefully curated images that illustrate the main points, combined with thorough referencing and further reading
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- Date Published: June 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108471343
- length: 578 pages
- dimensions: 286 x 223 x 32 mm
- weight: 1.88kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Part I. Aegean Neolithic Art:
1. Artefacts and Contexts
2. Architectural beginnings
3. Pottery
4. Figurines and models
5. Other arts: ornaments, seals, and stone vases
Part II. The Art of the Aegean Early Bronze Age:
6. Artefacts and Contexts
7. Architecture
8. Early Bronze Age Aegean glyptic
9. Sculpture
10. Stone vases, metalware, miscellaneous
11. EBA pottery in the Aegean
Part III. Aegean Art in the Cretan First Palace Period:
12. Artworks in context: the historical framework
13. Minoan architecture in the First Palace Period
14. Minoan glyptic in the Protopalatial period
15. Other Minoan relief arts: stone vases, jewelry, minor arts
16. Artworks in the round
17. Minoan pottery
18. Mainland Greece and the islands in the First Palace Period
Part IV. Aegean Art in the Second Palace Period: Crete and the Aegean Islands:
19. Artworks in context : the historical framework
20. Aegean architecture in the Second Palace period
21. Aegean wall painting
22. Minoan glyptic
23. Artworks in the round: figures, figurines, and zoomorphic vases
24. Other artworks (stone, faience, ivory, metal
textile)
25. Pottery production
Part V. Aegean Art in the Cretan Second Palace Period: Mainland Greece:
26. Artworks in context: the historical framework
27. Funerary architecture
28. Metalwork
29. Creto-Mycenaean glyptic
30. Other Mycenaean relief arts: wood, bone, ivory, stone and faience
31. Mycenaean pottery of LH I-IIA
32. General remarks: Aegean art during the Cretan Second Palace period
Part VI. Aegean Art in the Final Palatial Period of Knossos:
33. Artworks in context: the historical framework
34. Architecture
35. The frescoes
36. Metalwork, jewelry and various ornaments
37. Creto-Mycenaean glyptic in LM II/LH IIB–IIIA1
38. Other relief arts: ivory and stone
39. Artworks in the round: figurines and zoomorphic vessels
40. LM II/LH II-IIIA1 pottery
Part VII. Aegean Art of the Mainland Mycenaean Palatial Period:
41. Artworks in context: the historical framework
42. Architecture
43. Mycenaean painting
44. The end of Aegean glyptic
45. Mycenaean ivories of LH IIIA2-B
46. Other relief arts: goldwork, glass, faience, stone
47. Mycenaean art and 'international art'
Artworks in the round: figurines, figures, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vases
49. Pottery production: vases and sarcophagi
Part VIII. Aegean Art at the End of the Bronze Age:
50. Artworks in context: the historical framework
51. Architecture at the end of the Bronze Age
52. Figures, figurines, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic vases
53. Jewelry and metalwork
54. Pictorial art and vase painting
55. Mycenaean art and its legacy
Afterword. Aegean art through forgers' eyes
56. Fakes and dubitanda.
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Jean-Claude Poursat, University of Clermont-Ferrand
Jean-Claude Poursat is Professor emeritus at the Université Clermont Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He is the renowned excavator of 'Quartier Mu' at Malia, one of the most extensive town complexes of Middle Bronze Age Crete, and the author of many publications on various aspects of the Aegean Bronze Age.
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Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
Carl Knappett holds the Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Thinking through Material Culture, An Archaeology of Interaction, and most recently, Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making. He currently directs a fieldwork project at the Minoan town of Palaikastro.