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Eros and sexuality in Islamic art

Title
Eros and sexuality in Islamic art / edited by Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif.
Publication
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

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Additional Authors
  • Leoni, Francesca, 1974-
  • Natif, Mika
Description
xix, 244 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
Subject
  • Sex in art
  • Islamic art and symbolism
  • Erotik
  • Islamische Kunst
  • Art islamique > Thèmes, motifs
  • Sexualité > Dans l'art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Eros and sexuality in Islamic art: old issues and new perspectives / Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif -- Making love not war: the iconography of the cockfight in medieval Egypt / Fahmida Suleman -- The generative garden: sensuality, man love, and eternity in Govardhan's illustration of Saʻdi's Gulistān / Mika Natif -- Where have all the boys gone? the lady of the 'sala de justicia' ceilings and Nasrid poetics of sacred and profane love / Cynthia Robinson -- Visibly foreign, visibly female: the eroticization of the Zan-I Farangi in seventeenth-century Persian painting / Amy S. Landau -- Frontiers of visual taboos: painted indecencies in Isfahan / Sussan Babaie -- Ottomanizing pornotopia: changing visual codes in eighteenth-century Ottoman erotic miniatures / Tülay Artan and Irvin C. Schick -- 'Not to toil in lonely obsession': modern Persian erotica in the Kinsey Institute / Christiane J. Gruber.
Call Number
JQE 15-248
ISBN
  • 9781409464389
  • 1409464385
LCCN
2013012209
OCLC
836557748
Title
Eros and sexuality in Islamic art / edited by Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif.
Publisher
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Leoni, Francesca, 1974- editor.
Natif, Mika, editor.
Research Call Number
JQE 15-248
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