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The Grotesque Body in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

Meintani:The Grotesque Body in Graeco-R

Autor:	Anastasia Meintani
Verfügbarkeit:	Auf Lager.
Veröffentlicht am:	14.03.2022
Artikelnummer:	2468761
ISBN / EAN:	9783110691733

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The Grotesque Body in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

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Image & Context (ICON) is the first international series that focuses on the image and the imagery in the ancient world. The most distinctive quality of the image is its unique suggestive potential. An image can both catch the viewer's attention in a fraction of a second and stamp itself forever on his mind. At the core of the series are the questions of how and by whom images were shaped and perceived, and how images functioned within and contributed to a specific cultural context. The series aims to stimulate new discussion about the visual cultures of the ancient world and new approaches towards a history of the image.

Figurines exhibiting a distorted appearance were exceptionally à la mode in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Archaeologists have attributed a wide gamut of functions to them. The underlying common denominator of all the propounded theories is that the purpose of these images was the lampoon and degradation of the dregs of society and of the physically deformed. This book argues that such statuettes conversely carried deeply positive meanings.