Sexuality in Western Art
Title | Sexuality in Western Art PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1993 |
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Sexuality in Western Art
Title | Sexuality in Western Art PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Lucie-Smith |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
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.
Feminine Persuasion
Title | Feminine Persuasion PDF eBook |
Author | Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2003-02-13 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780253215895 |
Marking 50 years since the publication of the 'Kinsey Report', this text celebrates the diverse & multifaceted expressions of women's sexuality that have emerged since.
Sexual Personae
Title | Sexual Personae PDF eBook |
Author | Camille Paglia |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 1990-09-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300043961 |
From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both conservatives and traditional liberals. 47 photographs.
Erotic Art of the West
Title | Erotic Art of the West PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Melville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Erotic art |
ISBN |
Queer Beauty
Title | Queer Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | Whitney Davis |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2010-08-26 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231519559 |
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In turn, sexual desire and aesthetic pleasure had to be profoundly rethought by later writers. Whitney Davis follows how such innovative thinkers as John Addington Symonds, Michel Foucault, and Richard Wollheim rejoined these two domains, reclaiming earlier insights about the mutual implication of sexuality and aesthetics. Addressing texts by Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and Sigmund Freud, among many others, Davis criticizes modern approaches, such as Kantian idealism, Darwinism, psychoanalysis, and analytic aesthetics, for either reducing aesthetics to a question of sexuality or for removing sexuality from the aesthetic field altogether. Despite these schematic reductions, sexuality always returns to aesthetics, and aesthetic considerations always recur in sexuality. Davis particularly emphasizes the way in which philosophies of art since the late eighteenth century have responded to nonstandard sexuality, especially homoeroticism, and how theories of nonstandard sexuality have drawn on aesthetics in significant ways. Many imaginative and penetrating critics have wrestled productively, though often inconclusively and "against themselves," with the aesthetic making of sexual life and new forms of art made from reconstituted sexualities. Through a critique that confronts history, philosophy, science, psychology, and dominant theories of art and sexuality, Davis challenges privileged types of sexual and aesthetic creation imagined in modern culture-and assumed today.
Hidden Intercourse
Title | Hidden Intercourse PDF eBook |
Author | Wouter J. Hanegraaff |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2008-12-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047443586 |
From rumours about gnostic orgies in antiquity to the explicit erotic symbolism of alchemical texts, from the subtly coded eroticism of medieval kabbalah to the sexual magic practiced by contemporary occultists and countercultural translations of Asian Tantra, the history of Western esotericism is rich in references to the domains of eros and sexuality. This volume, which brings together an impressive array of top-level specialists, is the first to analyze the eroticism of the esoteric without sensationalism or cheap generalizations, but on the basis of expert scholarship and attention to textual and historical detail. While there are few other domains where the imagination may so easily run wild, the various contributions seek to distinguish fact from fiction--only to find that historical realities are sometimes even stranger than the fantasies. In doing so, they reveal the outlines of a largely unknown history spanning more than twenty centuries.