
	Philosophy and Culture Reference: Tereshchenko T.S. Images of black people in the art of Antiquity // Philosophy and Culture. 2016. № 5. P. 707-714. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=67849 Tereshchenko T.S. Images of black people in the art of Antiquity Abstract: The subject of this research is the images of black people in the art of Antiquity, and the object is the compositions of antique art (vase painting, sculpture, small statuary). The author carefully examines the key components of interpretation of the images of black people: characteristic peculiarities of their appearance, plots and roles in which they are portrayed; types of art compositions in which they exist; their transformation within time. The article also thoroughly analyzes the versions of interpretation of their semiotics, determines the general trends in interpretations of the images of black people that are common to different historical eras and types of arts. Scientific novelty consists in the comprehensive analysis of the images of black people in the context of general cultural and general historical transformation, with attraction of English, German, and French scientific sources, as well as in detection of their common and universal characteristics. The author makes the following conclusions: An absolutely unique role of black people in the art of Antiquity: they were the only kind of Others, whose images existed not only in vase painting, but also in small statuary, jewelry art, and numismatics; they existed in the Greek art of all times: Antiquity, Classics, Hellenism, as well as they were portrayed as warriors, servants, or associated with theatre, rituals, and witchcraft; Complexity and ambiguity of the interpretation of semiotics of their images; An ultimate stability of the scheme of representation of black people which outlived the Antiquity. Keywords: Otherness, vase painting, Ancient Greek art, art of Antiquity, black people, Other, images of the Other, figure vessels, Roman art, applied art This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article This article written in Russian. You can find original text of the article here . References 1. Lissarag F. Vino v potoke obrazov. Estetika drevnegrecheskogo pira. M.: NLO, 2008. 2. Skrzhinskaya M.V. Skifiya glazami ellinov, SPb: Aleteyya. 2001. 3. Shtal' I.V. Epicheskie predaniya Drevney Gretsii. Germanomakhiya. Opyt tipologicheskoy i zhanrovoy rekonstruktsii. M.: Nauka. 1989. 4. Bindman D. (ed.). The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 2-4. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2010-2012. 5. Buschor E. Das Krokodil des Sotades / Münchner Jarbuch des bildendenden Kunst. #11-13. 1919. SS. 1-43. 6. Kehnscherper G. Kreta. Mykene. Santorin. Leipzig et. al., 1973. 7. Lissarague F. The Athenian Image of the Foreigner / Greeks and Barbarians. Harrison T. (Ed.). Edinburgh, Edinburg University Press, 1988, pp. 101-124. 8. Lissarague F. L’autre guerrier. Archers, peltastes, cavaliers dans l’imagerie attique. Paris-Rome, Editions La Découverte / Ecole française de Rome. 1990. 9. Miller M.C. The Myth of Bousiris: Ethnicity and Art // Cohen B. (Ed.). Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art. Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers. 2000, pp. 413-442. 10. Raeck W. Zum Barbarenbild in der Kunst Athens im 6. und 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Bonn: Habelt, 1981. 11. Snowden F. M. Jr. Iconographical Evidence of the Black Populations in Greco-Roman Antiquity // Bindman D. (ed.). The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2010, pp. 141-250. 12. Tanner J. Introduction to the New Edition: Race and Representation in Ancient Art: Black Athena and After / Bindman D. (ed.). The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2010, pp. 1-40. 13. Tsiafakis D. The Allure and Repulsion of Thracians in the Art of Classical Athens / Cohen B. (Ed.). Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art. Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers. 2000, pp. 338-363 14. Vercoutter J. The Iconography of the Black in Ancient Egypt: From the Beginnings to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty / Bindman D. (ed.). The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I: From the Pharaohs to the Fall of the Roman Empire. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2010., pp. 41-94.

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