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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680.
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Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhhr83GJ7vTbdpbxm7rbd |
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Gender identity in art.
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Sex in art.
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Sculpture, Greek -- Themes, motives.
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Sculpture, Roman -- Themes, motives.
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Sculpture, Classical.
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Sculpture, Ancient.
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation. |
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Sculpture, Ancient |
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Gender identity in art |
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Sculpture, Classical |
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Sculpture, Greek -- Themes, motives |
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Sculpture, Roman -- Themes, motives |
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Sex in art |
Added Author |
Silk, M. S. (Michael Stephen), 1941- author.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781107039544 |
ISBN |
9781108636841 (electronic bk.) |
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1108636845 (electronic bk.) |
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9781139600439 |
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1139600435 |
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9781107039544 |
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1107039541 |
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9781107612198 (paperback) |
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