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Sexuality in ancient art : Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy

Title: Sexuality in ancient art : Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy / edited by Natalie Boymel Kampen with Bettina Bergmann ... [and others].
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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Description

xvii, 299 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.

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Contents

Introduction / Natalie Boymel Kampen -- Ch. 1. Sex, Rhetoric, and the Public Monument: The Alluring Body of Naram-Sin of Agade / Irene J. Winter -- Ch. 2. Dress, Undress, and the Representation of Fertility and Potency in New Kingdom Egyptian Art / Gay Robins -- Ch. 3. Sex and the Politics of Female Adornment in Pre-Achaemenid Iran (1000-800 B.C.E.) / Michelle I. Marcus -- Ch. 4. Archaic Bodies-in-Pieces / Page Dubois -- Ch. 5. Desiring Women on Athenian Pottery / Robin Osborne -- Ch. 6. Eros, Desire, and the Gaze / Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux -- Ch. 7. Women Looking at Women: Women's Ritual and Temple Sculpture / Eva Stehle and Amy Day -- Ch. 8. Portrayals of Abduction in Greek Art: Rape or Metaphor? / Ada Cohen -- Ch. 9. Reflections / Andrew Stewart -- Ch. 10. Etruscan Sexuality and Funerary Art / Larissa Bonfante -- Ch. 11. The Phallus as Signifier: The Forum of Augustus and Rituals of Masculinity / Barbara Kellum --
Ch. 12. Hypersexual Black Men in Augustan Baths: Ideal Somatotypes and Apotropaic Magic / John Clarke -- Ch. 13. The Pregnant Moment: Tragic Wives in the Roman Interior / Bettina Bergmann -- Ch. 14. The Calculus of Venus: Nude Portraits of Roman Matrons / Eve D'Ambra -- Ch. 15. Omphale and the Instability of Gender / Natalie Boymel Kampen -- Ch. 16. Naturalism and the Erotics of the Gaze: Intimations of Narcissus / John Elsner -- Ch. 17. Winckelmann's "Homosexual" Teleologies / Whitney Davis.

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95041666

OCLC

ocm33245037

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Columbia University Libraries