Research Catalog

Title

Body language in Hellenistic art and society / Jane Masséglia.

Author

Masséglia, Jane, 1980-

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Description

xxiv, 362 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This richly illustrated book brings together a wide range of Hellenistic art objects, and reveals how ancient social attitudes were encoded in the body language of their subjects. Incorporating approaches from anthropology and archaeology, it considers a wide range of social groups, from the elite to slaves, and examines the postures, gestures, and body actions which were considered appropriate to each"--

Series Statement

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.

Subjects

• Greece
• Art, Hellenistic
• Social conditions
• Body language in art
• To 146 B.C
• Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-355) and index.

Contents

Introduction. What is "Hellenistic" art? ; Body language ; Existing scholarship ; Structure ; Material and function -- Part One : Kings and the civic elite. The body language of Hellenistic kings. Kings ; Queens. The body language of the civic elite : men. Philosophers and poets ; Citizen men ; The body language of the civic elite : citizen women -- Part Two. The lower-status groups. The body language of 'genre' figures. Africans ; Servants ; Paidagogoi ; Fishermen and peasants ; Old women and nurses. The body language of 'grotesques.' Dwarfs ; 'Cripples.' -- Part Three : Synthesis. Body language in Hellenistic art and society. Asymmetry ; Thematic incongruity ; Movement ; Gendered display ; Social conformity ; Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1 : The mime 'problem' -- Appendix 2 : The body language of sitting. 'Seat-sitting' ; 'Ground-sitting' ; Social distribution of sitting postures.

Call Number

JQF 16-408

ISBN

• 9780198723592
• 0198723598

LCCN

2014959028

OCLC

908412149

Author

Masséglia, Jane, 1980- author.

Title

Body language in Hellenistic art and society / Jane Masséglia.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-355) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Chronological Term

To 146 B.C.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-408