Gender and body language in Roman art / Glenys Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Glenys, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture, Roman.

Latin literature.

Body language in art.

Body language in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Newyork : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Can we reconstruct Roman body language? Was it the same as ours? Does body language express and reinforce gender differences and the relative positions of men and women (dominant/subordinate) in society? Can analysis of the postures and gestures of Roman statues add to our understanding of gender in the Roman world? In this book, Glenys Davies explores these questions. Using studies on body language in modern Western societies, Roman literary sources, as well as her own analysis of statues of Roman men and women in an array of guises - nude, draped, standing, seated and represented together - she offers a nuanced and complex picture of gender relations. Her study shows that gender relations in the notoriously patriarchal society of Ancient Rome were not so different from what we experience today. Her book will be of interest to scholars of the classical world, gender history, art history, and body language in its social context"-- Provided by publisher.

"Gender and Body Language in Roman Art Can we reconstruct Roman body language? Was it the same as ours? Does body language express and reinforce gender differences and the relative positions of men and women (dominant/subordinate) in society? Can analysis of the postures and gestures of Roman statues add to our understanding of gender in the Roman world? In this book, Glenys Davies explores these questions. Using studies on body language in modern Western societies, Roman literary sources, as well as her own analysis of statues of Roman men and women in an array of guises - nude, draped, standing, seated and represented together - she offers a nuanced and complex picture of gender relations. Her study shows that gender relations in the notoriously patriarchal society of ancient Rome were not so different from what we experience today. Her book will be of interest to scholars of the classical world, gender history, art history, and body language in its social context. Glenys Davies is Honorary Fellow Honorary Fellow, School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on a wide range of aspects of Roman art as social history, including Roman funerary art, collections of Roman antiquities, gender, Greek and Roman dress, as well as aspects of the representation of body language in Classical art"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Body language and gender in the Roman world, 1: men

Body language and gender in the Roman world, 2: women

The standing nude

Clothed standing figures of men

Draped statues of women

Seated statues

Men and women together.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521842730

0521842735

OCLC:

1016950215