Gesture - Stance - Movement. Communicating Bodies in the Aegean Bronze Age, edited by Ute Günkel-Maschek, Céline Murphy, Fritz Blakolmer, and Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, 2024
This essay examines the relationship between human figures in wall paintings within their archite... more This essay examines the relationship between human figures in wall paintings within their architectural context and potential viewer reception. Large scale figures are inextricably bound to their spatial positions in communicating meaning, and it is the relationship between these and the bodily action of the viewer as they move through space that elicits response. Small scale figures lead the viewer's eyes between passages of meaning. In both, communication between painted figures within the image and between the image and the viewer is orchestrated through gesture, stance and movement. The essay explores directionality and positions on walls in relation to stasis and movement, on the premise that communicative action is the key to viewer response to painted figures within architectural space.
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