Manuel ÁLVAREZ JUNCO
Humorous Discourses on Classical Greek Pottery
Discursos humorísticos de la cerámica griega clásica
Published in The World of Tradition
Keywords: Keywords: Classical Greece, Conceptual wit, Iconography, Visual insight.
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02._art._alvarezjunco.pdfThe figurative pottery of classical Greece developed some visual discourses recognizable in the current Western humorous graphics. An important legacy of these significant images, of a high-quality technical workmanship and artistic expressiveness, has reached our times. This paper shows and analyses some examples of that visual world and its communicative methodology. The festive, the comic and, above all, the conceptually witty, has been the criteria followed for their selection.