كتاب
Body language in Hellenistic art and society
| العنوان: | Body language in Hellenistic art and society |
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| المؤلفون: | Masséglia, Jane, 1980- author. |
| بيانات النشر: | First edition. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xxiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Art, Hellenistic., Body language in art., Social conditions. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C., Greece. |
| Time: | To 146 B.C. |
| الوصف: | "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"-- |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction. What is "Hellenistic" art? ; Body language ; Existing scholarship ; Structure ; Material and function -- Part One : Kings and the civic elite. 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 -- Part Two. The lower-status groups. The body language of 'genre' figures. Africans ; Servants ; Paidagogoi ; Fishermen and peasants ; Old women and nurses. The body language of 'grotesques.' Dwarfs ; 'Cripples.' -- Part Three : Synthesis. 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. 'Seat-sitting' ; 'Ground-sitting' ; Social distribution of sitting postures. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn908412149 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-19-872359-2 0-19-872359-8 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-355) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014410951.4 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780198723592 0198723598 |
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