如何解读希腊陶瓶

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - How to Read

by Joan R. Mertens

选取大都会艺术博物馆35件精品陶瓶

介绍陶瓶的功能、器形，解读古希腊各个时期瓶画的内涵

神话、史诗、戏剧、祭祀……

从陶瓶中了解古希腊人民的日常生活

◎ 编辑推荐

☆以时间顺序为导向，讲解详细，语言生动

这本书的作者是纽约大都会艺术博物馆希腊和罗马艺术部的负责人琼•R.默滕斯教授，她以严谨的学术精神将陶瓶各个分类。总结了自公元前900年至前300年之间的陶瓶，不仅对陶瓶的命名方式进行了解释，还对陶瓶的挖掘研究工作进行了梳理。但正如作者本人所说“更愿意把书中的内容比作在美术馆聊天的延伸”，目的是告诉读者如何去看希腊陶瓶，她既提供了读者所需的信息，也借此传达出了陶瓶的复杂性。

☆ 以小见大，一个博物馆的馆藏，囊括多种陶瓶风格，覆盖面广

作者在大都会艺术博物馆中精心挑选了35件馆藏品，均为各个时期的代表性陶瓶。涵盖古希腊陶瓶的整个发展历程，从几何风格，到黑绘风格，再到红绘风格以及白底彩绘风格。默滕斯教授对陶瓶的详尽解析为我们打开了一个全新的世界，使我们仅仅通过黑色、砖色和红色这些单一的色彩，以非写实的方式了解古代市民的日常生活和情感经历。此外，作者还结合当时以不同材料制作的类似器皿进行对比，足以见出其知识面之广。

☆图文结合，35件作品从各个角度拍摄，尽显藏品细节

书中每件作品都附带了高清彩图，还有从不同角度拍摄的细节，使得读者能够在瓶画当中一窥古希腊市民的着装打扮、体育竞赛、婚葬习俗等一系列日常生活细节，同时帮助观者解读相关人物身份，解析个中故事。因而，那些没有机会参观大都会艺术博物馆的读者，也能够近距离观察到这些艺术品的细微之处。

◎ 内容简介

本书按照时间顺序对纽约大都会艺术博物馆的古希腊陶瓶进行分析解读。全书主要介绍了希腊陶瓶的器形、功能、制作工艺和装饰母题，同时还深入分析了这些特征相互之间的关系，使得读者能够在瓶画当中一窥古希腊市民的着装打扮、体育竞赛、婚葬习俗等一系列日常生活细节，同时帮助观者解读相关人物身份，解析各中故事。

作者是大都会艺术博物馆罗马和希腊艺术部管理员的琼•R.默滕斯教授，主要的研究方向是古希腊瓶画和古希腊青铜器，其丰富的研究经验也体现在各个陶瓶的分析之中。作者在大都会艺术博物馆中精心挑选了35件馆藏品，当中有的颇具代表性，有的是作者认为极具趣味性却不为世人所知。从各个拍摄角度记录，图文结合，帮助读者全方位了解陶瓶细节。

Genres: Art, History, Art History, Archaeology, Greece, Classics

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 2010

About the author

Joan R. Mertens is a curator and administrator in The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Art. She became curator in 1981, and served as an administrator from 1983 to 1990. For the comprehensive gallery reinstallation (1990s–2007) and subsequently, her work has focused on the collection of Greek vases and Cypriot art.

Reviews

[TL]

I had a nice experience recently while intoxicated: when I looked in the mirror after a workout and noticed how my newly generated beard had grown I thought I looked like Poseidon. Certainly while sober I look less like him. Nonetheless that experience set my taste agenda for Summer 2025. And that experience's auxiliaries too: after Poseidon appeared in my reflection I went back to my bedroom, which is on the side of the house that the sun barely strikes, and its one-year-long decadent interior design style clashed intensely with the Grecian health I had just perceived. I felt anxious, even nauseous about those unhealthy colors, royal purple and a certain shade of turquoise and black, inspired obliquely by À rebours, and that cheap jewel-encrusted tapestry from Thailand—it all created a most powerful mood, but the wrong one, for Poseidon recommended an urgent escape from all of it, offered a chariot I ought to ride up out into the daylight: and I thought then that he was right. So I went upstairs, and since the clouds had parted and the sun came out at 3 PM that afternoon, and as I let my strawberry-blonde cat in from outside, I understood the importance of orange, of warm colors, and of white marble. Therefore as a simulacrum of the ocean god I became friends with Apollo.

[Nick H · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful, vibrant reference book. I love how it zeroes in on specific works and looks at them from all angles. Incredible as artistic reference material because the pictures are also large and high-res. I appreciate the chronological ordering as well, which gave me a better understanding of the various eras and trends.

素晴らしい写真本。いい美術レファレンス。たくさん習いました

[Kevin Albrecht · Rating 5 out of 5]

An incredible journey through the history of Greek vases via 35 detailed walkthroughs of Greek vases from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Gave me a new appreciation for the details on the vases. Can't wait to see some in person next time!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really interesting, but I do wish it had more general information on Greek vases.

[Anna C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great selection from the Met's collection highlights, but not at all the "How to Read" guide it purports to be.

[EJ Easlick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very useful book if you want to know more about ancient art. I learned the difference between black-figure, red-figure, and white ground pottery in ancient Greece, and quite a bit more about how to interpret the images on Greek vases and pottery. And I feel like I've become much more competent in this area.