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1. Seeing spectators; 2. Defining spectators; 3. Vision and the construction of identity; 4. Ritual performance, spectators, and identity; 5. Men and youths: gender and social identity; 6. Women as spectators: gender and social identity.
This study explores the phenomenon of 'spectators' at the sides of Athenian narrative vase paintings.
Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell is Professor of Art History at the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. A scholar of Greek art, he is the author of Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art and has published articles on the painter Plygnotos and issues of narrative and methodology in the American Journal of Archaeology and several edited volumes.
'This book will stimulate graduate students and scholars interested
in the viewing and reading not just of Athenian pottery but of the
ancient visual arts in general. While the author notes that his
work is only the beginning, he addresses figures that often have
been neglected, thus demonstrating the possibility that they have
something to tell us about the ancient world. In short,
Stansbury-O'Donnell has given us new and vital directions to
explore in the study of decorated pottery.' American Journal of
Archaeology
'This study makes important progress in the discussion of the
meaning of spectators in images on Athenian vases … Most important,
the results here invite subsequent work and provide a clear basis
for it.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'Stansbury-O'Donnell's investigation is both thorough and carefully
presented … His careful methodology is exemplary, and his study
shows a way forward for our understanding of the unsung figures in
Attic art.' The Journal of Hellenic Studies
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