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Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens
Mark D. Stansbury-O´donnell
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Description for Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens
paperback. This study explores the phenomenon of 'spectators' at the sides of Athenian narrative vase paintings. Num Pages: 327 pages, 95 b/w illus. 58 tables. BIC Classification: ACG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 800.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
330
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107662803
SKU
V9781107662803
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About Mark D. Stansbury-O´donnell
Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell is Professor of Art History at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. A scholar of Greek art, he is the author of Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art and has published articles on the painter Plygnotos and issues of narrative and methodology in the American Journal of Archaeology and several edited volumes.
Reviews for Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens
'This book will stimulate graduate students and scholars interested in the viewing and reading not just of Athenian pottery but of the ancient visual arts in general. While the author notes that his work is only the beginning, he addresses figures that often have been neglected, thus demonstrating the possibility that they have something to tell us about the ancient ... Read more