Gender and Body Language in Roman Art
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2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-84273-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-84273-0 (ISBN)
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This analysis of the 'body language' of Roman statues reveals significant gender differences, but also a complex picture of the position of both women and men in Roman society. It is ideal for anyone interested in the Classical world, gender history, art history or body language in its social context.
Can we reconstruct Roman body language? Was it the same as ours? Does body language express and reinforce gender differences and the relative positions of men and women (dominant/subordinate) in society? Can analysis of the postures and gestures of Roman statues add to our understanding of gender in the Roman world? In this book, Glenys Davies explores these questions. Using studies on body language in modern Western societies, Roman literary sources, as well as her own analysis of statues of Roman men and women in an array of guises - nude, draped, standing, seated and represented together - she offers a nuanced and complex picture of gender relations. Her study shows that gender relations in the notoriously patriarchal society of Ancient Rome were not so different from what we experience today. Her book will be of interest to scholars of the classical world, gender history, art history, and body language in its social context.
Can we reconstruct Roman body language? Was it the same as ours? Does body language express and reinforce gender differences and the relative positions of men and women (dominant/subordinate) in society? Can analysis of the postures and gestures of Roman statues add to our understanding of gender in the Roman world? In this book, Glenys Davies explores these questions. Using studies on body language in modern Western societies, Roman literary sources, as well as her own analysis of statues of Roman men and women in an array of guises - nude, draped, standing, seated and represented together - she offers a nuanced and complex picture of gender relations. Her study shows that gender relations in the notoriously patriarchal society of Ancient Rome were not so different from what we experience today. Her book will be of interest to scholars of the classical world, gender history, art history, and body language in its social context.
Glenys Davies is Honorary Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. She has published on a wide range of aspects of Roman art as social history, including Roman funerary art, collections of Roman antiquities, gender, Greek and Roman dress, as well as aspects of the representation of body language in Classical art.
1. Introduction; 2. Body language and gender in the Roman world, I: men; 3. Body language and gender in the Roman world, II: women; 4. The standing nude; 5. Clothed standing figures of men; 6. Draped statues of women; 7. Seated statues; 8. Men and women together; 9. Conclusion.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.07.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 87 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 183 x 262 mm |
| Gewicht | 960 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-84273-5 / 0521842735 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-84273-0 / 9780521842730 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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