TY - BOOK ID - 85166693 TI - Artists and signatures in ancient Greece PY - 2015 SN - 1316355519 1316361918 1316363910 1316362914 1316364917 1316358518 131622645X 1107105714 1107513545 1316349519 9781316358511 9781316226452 9781107513549 9781107105713 9781107513549 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Artists KW - Persons KW - Social conditions. KW - Artistes KW - Autographs. KW - Signatures. KW - Grèce KW - Art, Ancient KW - Art antique KW - Conditions sociales KW - Autographes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85166693 AB - The Greeks inscribed their works of art and craft with labels identifying mythological or historical figures, bits of poetry, and claims of ownership. But no type of inscription is more hotly debated or more intriguing than the artist's signature, which raises questions concerning the role and status of the artist and the work of art or craft itself. In this book, Jeffrey M. Hurwit surveys the phenomenon of artists' signatures across the many genres of Greek art from the eighth to the first century BCE. Although the great majority of extant works lack signatures, the Greek artist nonetheless signed his products far more than any other artist of antiquity. Examining signatures on gems, coins, mosaics, wall-paintings, metalwork, vases, and sculptures, Hurwit argues that signatures help us assess the position of the Greek artist within his society as well as his conception of his own skill and originality. ER -