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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.