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Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100–700 BC

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Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100–700 BC Synopsis

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.

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ISBN: 9780521171922
Publication date: 18th October 2010
Author: Susan (University of Missouri, Columbia) Langdon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 408 pages
Genres: History of art
Archaeology by period / region
Ancient history
European history
Social and cultural history