Beth Cohen

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Beth Cohen is an American classical archaeologist .

She received her doctorate in 1977 as a student of Dietrich von Bothmer at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University with a thesis on Greek bilingual vases . Above all, she has distinguished herself as a specialist in the field of Greek vase painting , especially of unusual techniques in Attic vase painting . So she was in 2006 for the exhibition “The colors of clay. Special techniques in Athenian vases ”at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu.

Fonts

• Observations on coral-red. in: Marsyas. 15, 1970/71, pp. 1-12.
• Attic Bilingual Vases and their Painters. New York 1978. ISBN 0-8240-3220-9 .
• Paragons. Sculpture versus painting, Kaineus and the Kleophrades Painter. in: Ancient Greek art and iconography. Madison, Wisc. 1983, pp. 171-192.
• Oddities of very early Red-Figure and a new fragment at the Getty. in: Greek vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. 4. Malibu 1989, pp. 73-82.
• The literate potter. A tradition of incised signatures on Attic vases. in: Metropolitan Museum Journal. 26, 1991, pp. 49-95.
• Pericles' portrait and the Riace bronzes. New evidence for schinocephaly. in: Hesperia. 60, 1991, pp. 465-502.
• with Diana Buitron, N. Austin: The "Odyssey" and ancient art. An epic in word and image. In conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. New York 1992. ISBN 0-941276-17-3
• From bowman to clubman. Heracles and Olympia. in: Art Bulletin. 76, 1994, pp. 695-715.
• with H. Alan Shapiro (Ed.): Mother city and colony: classical Athenian and South Italian vases in New Zealand and Australia. (Catalog of the) exhibition Christchurch, New Zealand, September 16 to October 29, 1995. Christchurch, New Zealand 1995.
• (Ed.): The distaff side: representing the female in Homer's Odyssey. New York, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19-508683-X .
• with Diana Buitron-Oliver : Between Skylla and Penelope. Female characters of the "Odyssey" in archaic and classical Greek art. in: The distaff side. Representing the female in Homer's "Odyssey". New York 1995, pp. 29-58.
• Divesting the female breast of clothes in classical sculpture. in: Naked truths. Women, sexuality, and gender in classical art and archeology. London 1997, pp. 66-92.
• Red-figure vases take wing. in: Athenian potters and painters. The conference proceedings. Oxford 1997, pp. 141-155.
• (Ed.): Not the classical ideal: Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art. Leiden 2000, ISBN 90-04-11618-4 .
• Man-killers and their victims. Inversions of the heroic ideal in classical art. in: Not the classical ideal. Athens and the construction of the other in Greek art. Leiden 2000, pp. 98-131.
• Antico's bronze busts. Precious metal and the invention of Renaissance antiquities. in: From the parts to the whole. Acta of the 13th International Bronze Congress. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 28 - June 1, 1996, Vol. 2, Portsmouth RI 2002, pp. 265-272.
• with H. Alan Shapiro: The use and abuse of Athenian vases. in: Essays in honor of Dietrich von Bothmer. Amsterdam 2002, pp. 83-90.
• Bubbles, baubles, bangles and beads. Added clay in Athenian vase painting and its significance. in: Greek vases. Images, contexts and controversies. Proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Center for the Ancient Mediterranean at Columbia University, March 23-24, 2002. Leiden 2004, pp. 55-71.
• The colors of clay. Special techniques in Athenian vases. Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 0-89236-571-4 .