The hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman art

Summary: "The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and disabled body back into our understanding of ancient society and culture, art and representation. The Hunchback in Hellenistic and Roman Art works towards this end, using the figure of the hunchback to re-think and re-read images of the 'Other' as well as key issues that lie at the very heart of ancient representation. The author takes an art-historical approach, examining key features of the corpus of hunchbacks, as well as representations of the deformed and disabled more generally. This provides fertile ground for a re-assessment of current, and likewise marginalized, scholarship on the miniature in ancient art, hyperphallicism in ancient art, and the emphasis on the male body in ancient art"--

Record details

ISBN: 178093856X
ISBN: 9781780938561
ISBN: 1780939116
ISBN: 9781780939117
ISBN: 1472555813
ISBN: 9781472555816
ISBN: 1780939124
ISBN: 9781780939124
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Nottingham, 2007).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Small is beautiful too: the miniature hunchbackAt home with the miniature: displaying the hunchback; Viewing and touching the hunchback: does size matter?; Domesticating the hunchback; 3 Kai Su? The Hyperphallic Hunchback; The hunchback as apotropaion; The erotic appeal of the hunchback; 4 Men who are not Men: Gendering the Hunchback; The male Other: the male hunchback; The hunchback: representation and real life; Othering the female hunchback; Conclusion; The Catalogue of Hunchbacks; Plates; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.