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Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now

Door Joanne Bernstein

Categorie
Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer
#329313-AD14
Titel
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
Auteur
Bernstein, Joanne
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
London/New York : Merrell Publishers
Jaar van uitgave
2007
ISBN10
1858944163
ISBN13
9781858944166
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original cloth, ribbon marker, illustrated in colour and b/w, 4to.
Samenvatting
"Seduced" is a provocative and ambitious survey of representations of sex across cultures from ancient times to the modern day. Featuring such diverse works as Roman marbles, Japanese woodcuts, Indian manuscripts, Renaissance and Baroque paintings, nineteenth-century photographs and contemporary videos, this fascinating book reveals how art with a sexual content has been collected, openly displayed, concealed or prohibited over time. It provokes us to question the lines drawn between art and pornography and to examine our own boundaries of acceptability and censorship. This is the first major study of the visual representation of sex and changing attitudes towards explicit imagery throughout history. It includes works spanning 2000 years by over 70 artists, among them Rembrandt,... (Lees verder) Kitagawa Utamaro, J. M. W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jeff Koons.
Pagina's
255
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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