Glenys Davies

Gender and Body Language in Roman Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analysis of the body language of statues of men and women as an indicator of gender relations in Roman society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 181mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 952g
• ISBN-13: 9780521842730
• ISBN-10: 0521842735
• Artikelnr.: 50498728

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.