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The hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman art

Title
The hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman art / Lisa Trentin.
Author
Trentin, Lisa
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

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Description
xiii, 171 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding of ancient society and culture, art and representation. The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art works towards this end, using the figure of the hunchback to re-think and re-read images of the 'Other' as well as key issues that lie at the very heart of ancient representation. The author takes an art-historical approach, examining key features of the corpus of hunchbacks, as well as representations of the deformed and disabled more generally. This provides fertile ground for a re-assessment of current, and likewise marginalized, scholarship on the miniature in ancient art, hyperphallicism in ancient art, and the emphasis on the male body in ancient art"--
Subject
  • Abnormalities, Human, in art
  • Other (Philosophy) in art
  • Art, Hellenistic
  • Art, Roman
  • ART / History / Ancient & Classical
  • HISTORY / Ancient / General
  • LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
Note
  • Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Nottingham, 2007).
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Other in Miniature -- Chapter Two: The Hyperphallic Other -- Chapter Three: The Female Other -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781780938561 (hardback)
  • 178093856X (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2015009459
  • 40025020954
OCLC
  • ocn906171740
  • 906171740
  • SCSB-5809386
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries