Descript |
xxiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
Content |
text |
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still image |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
Contents |
Introduction. What is "Hellenistic" art? ; Body language ; Existing scholarship ; Structure ; Material and function -- 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 -- The body language of "genre" figures. Africans ; Servants ; Paidagogoi ; Fishermen and peasants ; Old women and nurses -- The body language of "grotesques". Dwarfs ; "Cripples" -- 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. |
ISBN |
9780198723592 (hardback) |
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0198723598 (hardback) |
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