Not the Classical Ideal

Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11712-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1013 g

Ancient Greece is characterized by a vision of reality in which a pre-eminent human type is defined in opposition to non-ideal ‘others’. The social structure of democratic Athens privileged male citizens, while marginalizing women, resident aliens, and slaves.
Across a broad spectrum of classical Greek imagery, this anthology provides an investigation of this ‘otherness’. Their methodologies ranging from traditional to avant-garde, an international cast of authors develops a nuanced picture of ‘otherness’, the visual criteria that denote it, and its social and political functions in regard to gender, class, and ethnicity.

Also available in hardback (ISBN 9789004116184)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Beth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Über Autor(innen)

Beth Cohen, Ph.D. (1977) in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, teaches at the New York Academy of Art. She has published on Greek sculpture and vase painting and edited The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey (Oxford, 1995).