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Author Barrow, R. J. (Rosemary J.), author.

Title Gender, identity and the body in Greek and Roman sculpture / R.J. Barrow ; prepared for publication by Michael Silk ; with the assistance of Jaś Elsner, Sebastian Matzner and Michael Squire Michael Squire.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This book offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Figures; Preface by Michael Silk; Rosemary Barrow: Obituary Notice; Practical Information; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Approaching Gender; Gender Studies; Visual Theories; Pornography; Case Studies; 1 The Male Body: Doryphoros; 2 The Female Body: Aphrodite of Cnidos; 3 The Veiled Body: Tanagra Statuette; 4 The Ageing Body: Drunken Old Woman; 5 The Indefinite Body: Sleeping Hermaphrodite; 6 The Political Body: Prima Porta Augustus; 7 The Incongruous Body: Portrait of 'Marcia Furnilla' as Venus
8 The Beloved Body: Antinous9 The Other Body: Marble Relief with Female Gladiators; 10 The Non-Human Body: Pan and a She-Goat; Epilogue: Bernini's 'Neptune and Triton'; Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680.
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhhr83GJ7vTbdpbxm7rbd
Gender identity in art.
Sex in art.
Sculpture, Greek -- Themes, motives.
Sculpture, Roman -- Themes, motives.
Sculpture, Classical.
Sculpture, Ancient.
ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
Sculpture, Ancient
Gender identity in art
Sculpture, Classical
Sculpture, Greek -- Themes, motives
Sculpture, Roman -- Themes, motives
Sex in art
Added Author Silk, M. S. (Michael Stephen), 1941- author.
Other Form: Print version: 9781107039544
ISBN 9781108636841 (electronic bk.)
1108636845 (electronic bk.)
9781139600439
1139600435
9781107039544
1107039541
9781107612198 (paperback)