Barbara e. and richard J. franke
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR
IN ART HISTORY, CINEMA & MEDIA STUDIES AND THE COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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

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

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