Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens

ISBN-13: 9781107662803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 327 str.

Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell

Opis

This study explores the phenomenon of spectators in the Classical world through a database built from a census of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, which reveals that spectator figures flourished in Athenian vase painting during the last two-thirds of the sixth century BCE. Using models developed from psychoanalysis and the theory of the gaze, ritual studies, and gender studies, Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell demonstrates 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.

Recenzje

'Stansbury-O'Donnell's investigation is both thorough and carefully presented … His careful methodology is exemplary, and his study shows a way forward for our understanding of the unsung figures in Attic art.' The Journal of Hellenic Studies

Spis treści

1. Seeing spectators; 2. Defining spectators; 3. Vision and the construction of identity; 4. Ritual performance, spectators, and identity; 5. Men and youths: gender and social identity; 6. Women as spectators: gender and social identity.