Sexuality in Ancient Art
Sexuality in Ancient Art
Sexuality in Ancient Art is the first anthology on the visual representation of the sexual body, sexual activity and desire, and the role of sexuality in the formation of personality and social institutions. Bringing together essays by historians of the art of Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Greece, the Etruscans and Rome, this collection demonstrates how a variety of methods and theoretical frames, including the traditionally archaeological and art historical, deconstructive, psychoanalytic, feminist, and Foucaultian, can be used to define and articulate these issues. The goal of this volume is to open a range of new subjects and approaches in the visual arts and the problems of representation for students and scholars of the ancient world.
- First essay collection on sexuality in the art of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Iran, Greece and Italy
- Interdisciplinary and concerned with use of new methods and theories in art history; topics include the sexual body, sexual activity, and sexual desire in art
- Useful as a text in ancient history, women's history, history of sexuality, and history of art
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320 pages
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0.895kg
105 b/w illus.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Natalie Boymel Kampen
- 1. Sex, rhetoric and the public monument: the alluring body of Narim-Sîn of Agade Irene J. Winter
- 2. Dress, undress and the representation of fertility and potency in New Kingdom Egyptian Art Gay Robins
- 3. Sex and the politics of female adornment in Pre-Achaemenid Iran Michelle I. Marcus
- 4. Archaic bodies-in-pieces Page Dubois
- Desiring women on Athenian pottery Robin Osborne
- 6. Eros, desire and the gaze Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux
- 7. Women looking at women: women's ritual and temple sculpture Eva Stehle and Amy Day
- 8. Portrayals of abduction on Greek art: rape or metaphor? Ada Cohen
- 9. Reflections Andrew Stewart
- 10. Etruscan sexuality and funerary art Larissa Bonfante
- 11. The phallus as signifier: the forum of Augustus and rituals of masculinity Barbara Kellum
- 12. Hypersexual black men in Augustan myths: ideal somatypes and apotropaic magic John Clarke
- 13. The pregnant moment: tragic wives in the Roman interior Bettina Bergmann
- 14. The calculus of Venus: nude portraits of Roman women Eve D'Ambra
- 15. Omphale and the instability of gender Natalie Boymel Kampen
- 16. Naturalism and the erotics of the gaze: intimations of Narcissus John Elsner
- 17. Winkelmann's 'homosexual' teleologies Whitney Davis.
