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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the 2019 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League"
"Osborne’s gifts as an observer of ancient art are beyond dispute. His discussions of the vase scenes he has chosen to explore are filled with the kind of insight that make one inclined to accept any conclusions to which they might lead. His book offers a radically new approach to the Attic vases, one that might even achieve the two grand goals Osborne sets for it: not only to 'rewrite the history of art' but also to 'rewrite history.'"
---James Romm, New York Review of Books"Osborne’s book is original and important, as is its advocacy of a shift away from questions of technique and influence . . . towards attention to subject and manner of representation." * Times Higher Education *
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The Transfomation of Athens] reinstates Athenian pottery to the place it deserves and acknowledges the enormous potential of painted vases to illuminate many areas of Greek culture. . . . This is a lucid, engaging and persuasive book."
---Diana Rodríguez Pérez, Burlington Magazine"Beautifully produced."
---Paul Watkins, Argo
