Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100700 BC by Susan Lan... - 9780521513210

Art and Identity in Dark Age Greece, 1100700 BCAuthor(s): Susan Langdon\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521513210, 978-0521513210\nSynopsis\nThis book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, [tel] 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 .