Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece

by: Stewart, A.

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 The body was central to the visual culture of ancient Greece, reflecting an obsession with physical beauty, integrity, dynamism, and power. Greek images of the body, nude and draped, still captivate the Western imagination. In this penetrating study, Andrew Stewart analyzes the problem of the Greeks' strange preoccupation with nakedness and sketches how artworks filter our understanding of the subject. Exploring selected constructions of gender, ranging from the men of the Parthenon frieze to naked girls on Spartan hand mirrors, he offers close readings of the two most authoritative essays on the subject: Polykleitos' Spearbearer and Praxiteles' Knidian Aphrodite. Moreover, Stewart investigates the Greek body as a microcosm of society, focusing on figurations of the Athenian body polity; erotica for men and women; and selected representations of the Other, such as Gorgons, Satyrs, Centaurs, and Amazons

Contents:
1. Perspectives
2. Nakedness
3. Tooling the Body
4. Three Attic Ideologies
5. Of War and Love
6. "Womanufacture"
7. The Athenian Body Politic
8. Erotica
9. Beyond the Walls
10. Looking Forward: After Alexander
Appendix. Archaic and Early Classical Small Bronzes of Girls "Going Dorian."

xiv, 272 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 29 cm

Art, Desire and the Body in Ancient Greece

by: Stewart, A.

• ISBN-13: 9780521450645 / 978-0-521-45064-5
• ISBN-03: 0521450640 / 0-521-45064-0
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997

Price: 125,00 EURO

(in stock)