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The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,494
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The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (Hardcover): Sheila Dillon

The Female Portrait Statue in the Greek World (Hardcover)

Sheila Dillon

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In this book, Sheila Dillon offers the first detailed analysis of the female portrait statue in the Greek world from the fourth century BCE to the third century CE. A major component of Greek sculptural production, particularly in the Hellenistic period, female portrait statues are mostly missing from our histories of Greek portraiture. Whereas male portraits tend to stress their subject's distinctiveness through physiognomic individuality, portraits of women are more idealized and visually homogeneous. In defining their subjects according to normative ideals of beauty rather than notions of corporeal individuality, Dillon argues that Greek portraits of women work differently than those of men and must be approached with different expectations. She examines the historical phenomenon of the commemoration of women in portrait statues and explores what these statues can tell us about Greek attitudes toward the public display of the female body.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2010
First published: 2010
Authors: Sheila Dillon
Dimensions: 260 x 185 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-76450-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Human figures depicted in art > Portraits in art
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LSN: 0-521-76450-5
Barcode: 9780521764506

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