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    • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
    • Date of Publication 4 August 2026

    • ISBN 9780299355708
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages340 pages
    • Size 254x203 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 93 color illus.
    • 700

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    Most people today encounter ancient Greek vases as static, untouchable artifacts safely out of reach behind glass, in the quiet of a museum gallery. Once, however, these vessels were also useful objects, made to be held, filled, and generally used in a variety of settings, from the ritual to the quotidian. This volume considers these ancient vases together with the theoretical frameworks developed by pioneers of phenomenology such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Edmund Husserl, helping us experience Greek vases as they once were. The principles of phenomenology require that we understand objects as active participants in shaping the manner in which humans experience the world. A phenomenological perspective allows us to see how the function and use of Greek vases shaped both their visual appearance and the perceptual experience of them—as well as our continued understanding of them today—while taking into account multisensory perspectives. With this alternative approach to the study of classical pottery, the authors offer new and illuminating insights not just into the objects in question but also into ancient Greek culture and life more broadly.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Illustrations
    List of Abbreviations

    Introduction: Experiencing Vases
    Carolyn LaferriÈre

    Part One
    Chapter 1. Ornament, Kant, and the Dependent Beauty of Greek Vases
    William Austin
    Chapter 2. The Satyr, the Krater, and Hegel: Mediated Subjectivity in a Peucetian Tomb
    Savannah Sather Marquardt
    Chapter 3. Swallowed by the Vase: Clementina Anstruther-Thomson’s Phenomenology of Greek Pottery
    Seth Estrin
    Chapter 4. The Phenomenology of Pictorial Representation: Gombrich, Wollheim, and Husserl
    Guy Hedreen
    Chapter 5. Pandora’s Pseudea and the Truth in Art: A Phenomenological Interpretation of the Niobid Painter’s Krater (BM 1856,1213.1)
    Clifford Robinson
    Chapter 6. Merleau-Ponty and the Greek Vase
    SeungJung Kim
    Chapter 7. The Unmanly Behind: Queer Phenomenology and the Male Body in Athenian Vase Painting
    Anthony F. Mangieri

    Part Two
    Chapter 8. Phenomenological Approaches to Archaic Boeotian Zoomorphic Rhyta in Their Ancient Use Context
    Trevor Van Damme
    Chapter 9. Reading (into) the Writing on Vases on Vases: Self-Referentiality in Late Archaic Athenian Red-Figure Vase Painting
    Seth Pevnick
    Chapter 10. Colors and the Gloss Effect in Attic Black- and Red-Figure Pottery
    Arne Reinhardt
    Chapter 11. An Embodied View of the Figured Greek Kylix
    D. Buck Roberson
    Chapter 12. On Douris’s Cup with Amazons
    David Saunders and Sanchita Balachandran
    Chapter 13. The Ecology of Festival Ware
    Amy C. Smith and Katerina Volioti

    Conclusion
    Acknowledgments
    References
    Contributors
    Index

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