Gender and Body Language in Roman Art

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Analysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Glenys Davies, Glenys (University of Edinburgh) Davies, Davies Glenys
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780521842730
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84273-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, sculpture, History of Art, Ancient Rome, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE, Human figures depicted in art