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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2019
Genre:	Architektur, Archäologie, Kunst
	analyzing art / art / ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure / Art History / bodies in art / Body language / Gestures / handshake / Human figures depicted in art / Human figures depicted in the arts / Painting / painting and body language / Paintings / people in art / people in paintings / sculpture / Sculptures / understanding art / understanding paintings / understanding sculpture mehr...
ISBN:	9780500022610
EAN-Code:	9780500022610
Verlag:	Thames and Hudson
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 240 mm / B 165 mm / D
Gewicht:	1060 gr
Seiten:	320
Illustration:	Illustrated in colour, farbige Illustrationen
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Inhalt:

Examining the body language displayed in works of art is a whole new way of looking at art. The gestures portrayed can reflect the mores of a particular period in history, the customs of a certain culture or a fashion in artistic styles. Exploring these with masterful subtlety, celebrated artist and anthropologist Desmond Morris uncovers fascinating insights about changing social attitudes and conventions through history and around the world, finding surprising similarities as well as now rarely used gestures. Morris selects a number of key gestures, such as the handshake, the pointed foot, or the glove-slap, and groups them by the message they are intended to convey, such as Greetings, Status and Threats. He discusses the previously unconsidered symbolism behind these. What is understood as a gang sign today may have borne a more enigmatic meaning for Botticelli. And what did Napoleon's hidden hand really mean? Postures: Body Language in Art uniquely combines the author's expertise in both art and social science, so that even the most familiar paintings are suddenly seen in a new light.