Painting Pots â Painting People by Unknown
Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Ancient / General
ISBN: 9781785704406
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2017-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
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Pots to be seen
Olivier Nieuwenhuyse
Abstract
Late Neolithic painted pottery styles are often interpreted as symbolic systems of visual communication. This paper explores a basic requirement for any visual communication: visual contrast between signs and background noise. The painted pottery styles that arose in Upper Mesopotamia in the later seventh millennium emphasized delicately-shaped, elaborately-decorated serving vessels used in contexts involving serving and consuming food and drink, at the level of the individual household and in community-wide feasts. Painted pottery became instrumental in forging social networks beyond the local horizon; they were pots to be seen. This paper highlights various strategies adopted by potters to enhance contrast between the painted decoration and the surface background. I briefly contrast painted styles with appliqué-decorated vessels, arguing that this category emphasized non-visual senses. I conclude with discussing the context of ceramic innovation arguing that at least in part potters innovated to maximize visibility and intelligibility.
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