| Description |
xiv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Seeing spectators -- Defining spectators -- Vision and the construction of identity -- Ritual performance, spectators, and identity -- Men and youths: gender and social identity -- Women as spectators: gender and social identity. |
| Summary |
"Spectators at the sides of narrative vase paintings have long been at the margins of scholarship, but a study of their appearance shows that they provide a model for the ancient viewing experience. They also reflect social and gender roles in archaic Athens. This study explores the phenomenon of spectators through a database built from a census of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, which reveals that the figures flourished in Athenian vase painting during the last two-thirds of the sixth century B.C.E. Using models developed from the psychoanalysis and the theory of the gaze, ritual studies, and gender studies, Stansbury-O'Donnell shows how these "spectators" emerge as models for social and gender identification in the archaic city, encoding in their gestures and behavior archaic attitudes about gender and status."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Vase-painting, Greek -- Greece -- Athens.
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Vases, Ancient -- Greece -- Athens.
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Spectators in art.
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Sex role in art.
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Art and society -- Greece -- Athens.
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| ISBN |
0521853184 hardback |
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9780521853187 hardback |
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