Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens Hardback
by Mark D. (University of St Thomas, Minnesota) Stansbury-O'Donnell
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Spectators at the sides of narrative vase paintings have long been at the margins of scholarship, but a study of their appearance shows that they provide a model for the ancient viewing experience.
They also reflect social and gender roles in archaic Athens.
This study explores the phenomenon of spectators through a database built from a census of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, which reveals that the figures flourished in Athenian vase painting during the last two-thirds of the sixth century BCE.
Using models developed from psychoanalysis and the theory of the gaze, ritual studies, and gender studies, Stansbury-O'Donnell shows how these 'spectators' emerge as models for social and gender identification in the archaic city, encoding in their gestures and behavior archaic attitudes about gender and status.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:330 pages, 58 Tables, black and white; 95 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/03/2006
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- ISBN:9780521853187
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:330 pages, 58 Tables, black and white; 95 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/03/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521853187
