Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
Cambridge University Press
Edition: First Edition, 10/11/2018
EAN 9781107039544, ISBN10: 1107039541
Hardcover, 246 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture 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.
Introduction
approaching gender
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
Antinous
9. The other body
marble relief with female gladiators
10. The non-human body
Pan and a she-goat
Epilogue
Bernini's 'Neptune and Triton'.