Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 BC (Hardback)
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Short Description for Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 BC Explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender and social identity in Dark Age Greece.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 31 October 2008
- Format: Hardback 406 pages
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- Categories: Art History: Ancient & Classical BCE to c 500 CE | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History | Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780521513210 ISBN 10: 0521513219
- Sales rank: 1,076,718
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Full description for Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100-700 BC
This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100-700 BCE. Coming between the collapse of the Bronze Age palaces and the creation of Archaic city-states, these four centuries witnessed fundamental cultural developments and political realignments. Whereas previous archaeological research has emphasized class-based aspects of change, this study offers a more comprehensive view of early Greece by recognizing the place of children and women in a warrior-focused society. Combining iconographic analysis, gender theory, mortuary analysis, typological study and object biography, Susan Langdon explores how early figural art was used to mediate critical stages in the life-course of men and women. She shows how an understanding of the artistic and material contexts of social change clarifies the emergence of distinctive gender and class asymmetries that laid the basis for classical Greek society.
