Sex on show: seeing the erotic in Greece and Rome - Rilegato

Vout, Caroline

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0714122785 ISBN 13: 9780714122786

Casa editrice: British Museum Press, 2013

Riassunto

The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups, oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and sexual intercourse which make the modern viewer blush; models of penises were worn around the neck or hung from doorways. In classical Greece, statues of erect penises served as boundary-stones and signposts. In Rome, marble satyrs and nymphs grappled in gardens. How are we to make sense of this abundance of sexual imagery? Were these images seductive, shocking, humorous? Were they about sex or love? And what and how do we learn from them? Sex on Show answers these questions by embracing ancient attitudes to religion, politics, sex and gender to examine how the ancient saw themselves and their world. Covering the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD, as well as some Neoclassical art from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Sex on Show uses detailed visual analysis to bring new insights to Greek and Roman culture and to the meaning of erotic imagery, past and present. This is not simply a book about sexual practice or social history. It is a visual history - about what it meant and still means to stare sex in the face.

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Recensione:

'Current, written in a lively and open style, wonderfully illustrated, and inspiring' --The Anglo-Hellenic Review

L'autore:

Caroline Vout is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for art history. She is the author of The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City (Cambridge University Press, 2012), Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Antinous: the Face of the Antique (Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, 2006) which won the inaugural Art Book Award.

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• Editore: British Museum Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0714122785
• ISBN 13: 9780714122786
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256