Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society write by Jane Masséglia. This book was released on 2015. Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why are so many Hellenistic kings shown with one arm in the air? Could posture distinguish the slave from the citizen? Was there a Hellenistic etiquette of sitting down? How did Hellenistic Greeks feel about the bodies of the disabled and the elderly? And what did it mean to Tuck-for-Luck? This richly-illustrated book brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects. Incorporating approaches from anthropology and archaeology, it considers a wide range of social groups, from the elite to slaves, and examines the postures, gestures, and body actions which were considered appropriate to each. By examining Hellenistic kings, queens, public intellectuals, citizen men and women, Africans, servants, paidagogoi, fishermen, peasants, old women, dwarfs, and the disabled, this study provides important new insights into what is 'Hellenistic' about Hellenistic Art, and into the anxieties of Hellenistic society. In doing so, it not only reconsiders familiar concepts such as the 'individuality' of the civic elite and the apparent passivity of women, but also reveals Hellenistic attitudes towards issues such as old age, race, and child abuse, and explores power, prejudice, and the role of art in both reflecting and enforcing social stereotypes.
Gender and Body Language in Roman Art
Gender and Body Language in Roman Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Body Language in Roman Art write by Glenys Davies. This book was released on 2018-05-31. Gender and Body Language in Roman Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.
The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art
The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art write by Lisa Trentin. This book was released on 2015-06-18. The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding of ancient society and culture, art and representation. The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art works towards this end, using the figure of the hunchback to re-think and re-read images of the 'Other' as well as key issues that lie at the very heart of ancient representation. The author takes an art-historical approach, examining key features of the corpus of hunchbacks, as well as representations of the deformed and disabled more generally. This provides fertile ground for a re-assessment of current, and likewise marginalized, scholarship on the miniature in ancient art, hyperphallicism in ancient art, and the emphasis on the male body in ancient art.
Gestures, Postures and Body Actions in Hellenistic Art
Gestures, Postures and Body Actions in Hellenistic Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gestures, Postures and Body Actions in Hellenistic Art write by Jane Elizabeth Ann Anderson. This book was released on 2010. Gestures, Postures and Body Actions in Hellenistic Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia
Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia write by Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper. This book was released on 2020-03-12. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using the visual and tactile experience of small-scale figurines, Greeks and Babylonians negotiated a hybrid, cross-cultural society in Hellenistic Mesopotamia.
