Body language in Hellenistic art and society /

Body language in Hellenistic art and society /

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Main Author: Masséglia, Jane, 1980- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
©2015.

Edition: First edition.

Series: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.

Subjects:

Body language in art.
Art, Hellenistic > Themes, motives.
Art and society > Greece > History > To 1500.
Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C.

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Call Number: N5633 .A534 2015

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264 1 |a Oxford :   |b Oxford University Press,   |c 2015. 
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300 |a xxiv, 362 pages :   |b illustrations (black and white) ;   |c 25 cm. 
490 0 |a Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. 
500 |a Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Oxford, 1980) under the title : Gestures, postures and body actions in Hellenistic art. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-355) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction. What is "Hellenistic" art? ; Body language ; Existing scholarship ; Structure ; Material and function -- The body language of Hellenistic kings. Kings ; Queens -- The body language of the civic elite : men. Philosophers and poets ; Citizen men -- The body language of the civic elite : citizen women -- The body language of "genre" figures. Africans ; Servants ; Paidagogoi ; Fishermen and peasants ; Old women and nurses -- The body language of "grotesques". Dwarfs ; "Cripples" -- Body language in Hellenistic art and society. Asymmetry ; Thematic incongruity ; Movement ; Gendered display ; Social conformity ; Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1 : The "mime" problem -- Appendix 2 : The body language of sitting. 
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