Sexuality in Western art /

A study of the fine art born of an obsession which has preoccupied Western artists from Michelangelo to Picasso, Rubens to Mapplethorpe. ... Publisher description.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lucie-Smith, Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Series:World of art.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Contexts. The Erotic and the Sacred
  • The Open Secret
  • The New Paganism
  • Eroticism and Realism
  • Cruel Fantasies - Love for Sale
  • The All-devouring Female
  • Erotic Metamorphosis
  • Part Two: Symbols. Venus Observed
  • Lust in Action
  • Deviations
  • Pleasurable Pains
  • Here Comes a Chopper
  • Symbols and Disguises
  • Sexuality, Modernism, and Post-modernism.