Vase Painting, Gender, and Social Identity in Archaic Athens (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107662803)

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.

Author: Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell
ISBN-10: 110766280X
ISBN-13: 9781107662803
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2013
Pages: 327
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.70d