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.
Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds - 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 the Greek and Roman Worlds write by Douglas Cairns. This book was released on 2005-12-31. Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A distinguished cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the construction of facial expression in Greek and Roman epic; the significance of gesture and body language in the visual meaning of ancient sculpture; the evidence for gesture and performance style in the texts of ancient drama; the erotic significance of feet and footprints; and the role of gesture in Roman law. The volume seeks to apply a sense of history as well as of theory in interpreting non-verbal communication. It looks both at the cross-cultural and at the culturally specific in its treatment of this important but long-neglected aspect of Classical Studies.
Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society
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.
Women and the Roman City in the Latin West
Women and the Roman City in the Latin West - 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 Women and the Roman City in the Latin West write by Emily Hemelrijk. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Women and the Roman City in the Latin West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Roman Cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. Yet as the contributions to this volume—which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire—show, women occupied a wide range of civic roles. Women had key roles to play in urban economies, and a few were prominent public figures, celebrated for their generosity and for their priestly eminence, and commemorated with public statues and grand inscriptions. Drawing on archaeology and epigraphy, on law and art as well as on ancient texts, this multidisciplinary study offers a new and more nuanced view of the gendering of civic life. It asks how far the experience of women of the smaller Italian and provincial cities resembled that of women in the capital, how women were represented in sculptural art as well as in inscriptions, and what kinds of power or influence they exercised in the societies of the Latin West.
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture - 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 the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture write by Rosemary J. Barrow. This book was released on 2018-10-11. Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, and art history.
