Greek Art (Ancient)- General & Miscellaneous, General Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art, Modern Art, Peoples & Nationalities in Art

Not the Classical Ideal

Name: Not the Classical Ideal
Author: Beth Cohen
ISBN: 9789004117129

by Beth Cohen

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Overview

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.

About the Author, Beth Cohen

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).