David Walsh

Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting

The World of Mythological Burlesque

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Greek vase-paintings that depict humorous, burlesque, and irreverent images of Greek mythology and the gods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 445
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9781107669659
• ISBN-10: 1107669650
• Artikelnr.: 40951389

Autorenporträt

David Walsh is a Visiting Research Scholar in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The dramatic, artistic, religious and social context of humour
3. Strange beginnings
4. Violating the sanctuary
5. Ridiculing the gods
6. Subverting the hero
7. Distorted bodies
do the 'uglies' have the last laugh?
8. Distribution: being in with the 'in-crowd'
9. Final reflections: the world reversed.