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Barbara e. and richard J. franke

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR

IN ART HISTORY, CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES AND THE COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Greek and Ancient art: books

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, fascicule 7. Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum 1997.

Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, circa 530–460 BCE.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2002

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2010.  Paperback: 2013.

Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 BCE, London and New York: Thames and Hudson 2011.

Kunst und Archäologie der griechischen Welt: Von den Anfängen bis zum Hellenismus. Mainz: von Zabern 2013.

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Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 BCE, Second edition.  London and New York: Thames and Hudson 2019.

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Conditions of Visibility.  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019.

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Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology (co-authored with Leslie Kurke).  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019.

Winner, 2020 PROSE Award in Classics, Association of American Publishers.

Greek art: other

“The Lion’s Eye: Imitation and Uncertainty in Attic Red-Figure,” Representations 51 (1995): 118–53. 

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“Beazley and the Language of Connoisseurship,” Hephaistos 15 (1997): 7–30.

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“Imitation, Inscription, Antilogic,” Métis. Revue d’anthropologie du monde grec ancien 13 (1998): 17–38.

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Review of Mary B. Moore, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, fascicule 8.  Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2000).

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Framing the Gift: The Politics of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi.”  Classical Antiquity 20 (2001): 273–336.

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Abridged version: “Framing the Gift: The Siphnian Treasury at Delphi and the Politics of Architectural Sculpture.” In The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, edited by C. Dougherty and L. Kurke, 129–49. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2003.

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“Space and Politics: On the Earliest Classical Athenian Gravestones.”  Apollo 156 (July, 2002): 20–27.

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“The Athenian Treasury at Delphi and the Material of Politics.” Classical Antiquity 22 (2004): 63–93.

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Review of Clemente Marconi, ed., Greek Vases: Images, Contexts and Controversies. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2004).

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“Delphi, Olympia, and the Art of Politics.”  In The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, edited by H.A. Shapiro, 245–64. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2007.

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“The Incontinence of Civic Authority: Pictorial Iambos in Athenian Vase–Painting.”  In The World of Greek Vases, edited by V. Nørskov et al., 205–18. Rome: Edizioni Quasar 2009.

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“Jean-Pierre Vernant and the History of the Image,” Arethusa 43 (2010): 181–95.

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“Sacrificing Stones: On Some Sculpture, Mostly Athenian.” In Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice: Ancient Victims, Modern Observers, edited by Christopher Faraone, Bruce Lincoln and Fred Naiden, 99–119. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2012.

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“‘A Tomb Both Great and Blameless’: Marriage and Murder on a Sarcophagus from the Hellespont,” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 61/62 (2012): 98–115.

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“Texte et image dans l'Antiquité,” (with Susanne Muth, Agnès Rouveret and Ruth Webb), Perspective.  La revue de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (2012): 11–28.

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“Cosmos and Discipline.”  In Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World, edited by Deena Ragavan, 453–59.  Chicago: Oriental Institute 2013.

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“Pindar Fr. 75 SM and the Politics of Athenian Space,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 54 (2014): 527–79. 

Co-authored with Leslie Kurke.

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“Greek Art and Archaeology.”  In The Oxford Bibliography of Art History, edited by T. da Costa Kauffman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014.

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Review of Nigel Spivey, Greek Sculpture (2013). Classical Review 64 (2014): 268–70.

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“Classical Sculpture.”  In The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd edition, ed. Michael Kelly.  Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014.

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“Pitiless Bronze,” Art in America December, 2015.

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"Was the Knidia a Statue?  Art History and the Terms of Comparison." In Comparativism in Art History, edited by JaÅ› Elsner, 145-64.  New York: Routledge.

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"Ornament, Incipience and Narrative: Geometric to Classical."  In Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art: Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity, edited by Michael Squire and Nikolaus Dietrich, 203-39 (Berlin: De Gruyter 2018).

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"Amber, Oil and Fire: Greek Sculpture beyond Bodies."  Art History 41 (2018): 466-91.

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"L'histoire de l'image (après Vernant)." In Relire Vernant, edited by Stella Georgoudi and François de Polignac, 169-86 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2018).

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“Introduction.”  In Conditions of Visibility, edited by R. Neer, 1-6 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

 

“Three Types of Invisibility: The Akropolis of Athens.”  In Conditions of Visibility, edited by R. Neer, 7-42 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

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“Ancient Greek Vessels between Sea, Earth, and Clouds.”  In Vessels: The Object as Container, edited by Claudia Brittenham, 6-49 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Greek Art: Books

french art

“Poussin, Titian, and Tradition: The Birth of Bacchus and the Genealogy of Images,” Word & Image 18 (2002): 267–81.

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“Poussin and the Ethics of Imitation,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 51/52 (2006/2007): 298–344.

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“Poussin’s Useless Treasures.”  In Judaism and Christian Art, edited by H. Kessler and D. Nirenberg, 328–58. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2010.

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“Before Realism,” Art in America (January, 2017): 58-65.      

 

“Bourdon, Bosse and the Rules of Art.”  In Classicisms, edited by Larry Norman and Anne Leonard, 30-41.Chicago: University of Chicago Press/Smart Museum 2017.

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French Art

StylE, evidencE,HISTORIOGRAPHY

“Beazley and the Language of Connoisseurship,” Hephaistos 15 (1997): 7–30.

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“Connoisseurship and the Stakes of Style.”  Critical Inquiry 32 (2005): 1–26.

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“The Rule of Style.”  In Cahiers Parisiens/Paris Notebooks 2, edited by R. Morrissey, 404–21. Chicago: University of Chicago 2007.

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“Connoisseurship: From Ethics to Evidence.” In An Archaeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and Contemporary Methodologies, edited by D. Yatromanolakis, 25–50. Athens: Kardamitsa 2009.

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“Introduction.”  In Leo Steinberg, Michelangelo’s Sculpture, edited by S. Schwartz, xi-xiv.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2018.

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Style & Evidence

theory, CInema, contemporarY

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Davidson and His Interlocutors, a special issue of Critical Inquiry co-edited with Daniele Lorenzini.

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“Godard Counts,” Critical Inquiry 34 (2007): 135–73.

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“Terrence Malick’s New World,” nonsite 2 (2011).

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“Reaction and Response.”  Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 472–76.

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“Tumbling into Time.”  In Charles Ray Sculpture 1997–2014, edited by James Rondeau (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Basel: Kunstmuseum  2014), pp. 57–75.

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“Lightweight: Mizoguchi, Ugetsu and the Displacement of Criteria.”  In “Davidson and His Interlocutors,” edited by D. Lorenzini and R. Neer.  Special issue, Critical Inquiry 45 (2019): 496-530.

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