Eroticism in Western Art
Author | : Edward Lucie-Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Lucie-Smith |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alyce Mahon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192807335 |
Art? Erotica? Or Pornography? Discussions of what actually constitutes erotic art are incredibly complex and usually highly controversial. The naked body in art has been with us since the earliest examples of Greek art and sculpture. The creation and display of such works of art has always inflamed opinion and today, even withour supposed relaxation of the codes of behaviour surrounding nudity, such images are considered provocative, dangerous, and are often unwelcome in the public sphere.Now - focusing on the last 150 years of western art, these debates are finally explored in an imaginative and engaging way using the latest research and analysis into this and related subject areas - by a woman.
Author | : Robert Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Erotic art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stefano Zuffi |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606060090 |
This volume is a romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in art. The book surveys Western artworks illustrating more or less explicitly delicate or amorous subjects.
Author | : Edward Lucie-Smith |
Publisher | : Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780500202524 |
Edward Lucie-Smith's examination of sexuality in Western art from prehistory to the present first treats the tradition chronologically, then considers its characteristic themes and symbols.
Author | : Richard Shusterman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107004764 |
Drawing on theories of lovemaking from ancient Asian and Western cultures, this book provides a new aesthetics of erotic love.
Author | : Hans-Jürgen Döpp |
Publisher | : Parkstone International |
Total Pages | : 1240 |
Release | : 2016-12-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1783103337 |
Author | : Edward Lucie-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Erotic art |
ISBN | : 9780297822981 |
Author | : Wouter J. Hanegraaff |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2008-12-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047443586 |
The history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality, but this connection has never been explored in detail from a critical scholarly perspective. Bringing together an impressive array of top-level specialists, this volume reveals the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.
Author | : Sanjay K. Gautam |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-06-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 022634844X |
Gautam has here laid out the first serious reading of Michel Foucault in relation to key Sanskrit texts, and--what may be a surprise to many--he has written the first book-length work in English on the nature and origin of the Kamasutra. Gautam also takes up the Natyasastra (the Kamasutra's twin), locating in the first the themes of sexual-erotic pleasure, and locating in the second the classical Indian view of theater, music, dance, and aesthetic pleasure. The book shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in ancient Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics. Foucault provides a framework for opening up the intellectual horizon of Indian thought; it is his distinction between ars erotics (erotic arts) and scientia sexualis (science of sexuality) that fuels Gautam's exploration of the courtesan as symbol of both erotic and aesthetic pleasure, particularly in her role as a wife to her patron, which entails the morphing of erotics into a form of theater. The scope broadens ambitiously, to an inquiry on the nature of knowledge formation, erotics, theater, and gender relations in premodern Indian society and culture--as they converged on the historical figures of the courtesan and her male counterpart, the dandy. Gautam's twining of aims and subjects--Foucault's western philosophy of pleasure and India's classic text on eros (anchored in art and aesthetics)--transforms both the modern and the ancient texts with new understandings, and as new forms of investigating erotics and subjectivity itself.