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Designing Women: The Hetaira as Model from Phintias through Praxiteles
Andrew Stewart Monday, November 10, 2008, 4:30 P.M. Yale University, Phelps Hall, Room 407 Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Lectureship
Using Athenian vase-paintings and Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos as examples, this lecture will respond to recent feminist critiques of the female nude in Greek art by suggesting that these artists constructed the image of the naked courtesan or hetaira as a women's role-model. The lecture will also touch upon the Knidia's legacy in western art from Botticelli through Dora Maar, and that of Praxiteles' favorite hetaira Phryne.


Andrew Stewart is a graduate of Cambridge and a former student of the British Schools of Archaeology at Athens and Rome. He currently teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies, Professor of Art History and the Classics, and Director of the UC Berkeley excavation team in Tel Dor, Israel. He has received major fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim and Getty Foundations, and is a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Dr. Stewart has published extensively in the areas of Greek sculpture, ancient art and architecture, archaeology, the east after Alexander, and the Renaissance and Antiquity. Lecturer's Curriculum Vitae

For More Information on Lecture Topic:
Beard, Mary, and John Henderson. 2001. Classical Art: From Greece to Rome. Oxford. pp. 115-31. Burkert, Walter. 1985. Greek Religion. Cambridge (Mass.). pp. 152-56. Burkert, Walter. 1992. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near-Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age. Cambridge (Mass.). pp. 96-100. Faraone, Christopher A. 1999. Ancient Greek Love Magic. Cambridge (Mass.). Havelock, Christine M. 1995. The Aphrodite of Knidos and Her Successors. Ann Arbor. Kurke, Leslie. 1999. Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold. The Politics of Meaning in Archaic Greece. Princeton. Pasquier, Alain, and Jean-Luc Martinez. 2007. Praxitèle. Paris. Salomon, Nanette. 1997. “Making a World of Difference. Gender, Asymmetry, and the Greek Nude.” In Ann-Olga Koslowski-Ostrow and Claire L. Lyons (eds.) Naked Truths. Women, Sexuality, and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology. London and New York. pp. 197-219. Stewart, Andrew. 1990. Greek Sculpture: An Exploration. New Haven. pp. 53-55. Stewart, Andrew. 1997. Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece. Cambridge. pp. 97-107, 221-24. Stewart, Andrew. 2008. Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art. Cambridge and New York. pp. 257-62. Winkler, John J. 1991. “The Constraints of Eros.” In Christopher A. Faraone and D. Obbink (eds.), Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion. New York. pp. 214-43.

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