Gender, Identity and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture
2018/09/21 by Rosemary Barrow, Michael Silk · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Ancient Greece #Ancient Greek #Archaeology #Art #Art, Politics, and Modernism #Classical Antiquity Studies #Classics #Context (archaeology) #Gender studies #Glossary #History #Human sexuality #Identity (music) #Late Antiquity #Law in Society and Culture #Period (music) #Philosophy #Sculpture #Sociology #Visual arts
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/9781139600439
openalex publication_date 2018/09/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Abstract
Gender and the Body in Greek and Roman Sculpture offers incisive analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, art history and other related fields. The book raises important questions about ancient sculpture and the contrasting responses that the individual works can be shown to evoke. Rosemary Barrow gives close attention to both original context and modern experience, while directly addressing the question of continuity in gender and body issues from antiquity to the early modern period through a discussion of the sculpture of Bernini. Accessible and fully illustrated, her book features new translations of ancient sources and a glossary of Greek and Latin terms. It will be an invaluable resource and focus for debate for a wide range of readers interested in ancient art, gender and sexuality in antiquity, and art history and gender and body studies more broadly.
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