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The sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art and in modern oblivion
- Title
- The sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art and in modern oblivion / Leo Steinberg.
- Author
- Steinberg, Leo, 1920-2011
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | N8050 .S74 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 417 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The second edition of The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion - doubled in size by the addition of a "Retrospect"--Expands the now classic original text in three directions. It brings in a host of confirming images; deepens the theological argument; and answers skeptical or scandalized critics who decried the book at its first publication. In its polemical parts, the book wrestles large issues, such as the validity of interpretations that come without supporting texts, or the modern pleas that the maleness of Christ be tempered into androgyny. Along the way, the topics engaged range from Christ's human nature to Dr. Strangelove, from St. Augustine's dismal assessment of babyhood to the aesthetics of the U.S. Post Office."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Jesus Christ > Physical appearance > Art
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christus
- Jesus Christ > Sexuality
- Jésus-Christ dans l'art
- Jesus Christus
- Sex in art
- Art, Renaissance
- Art, Modern
- Art
- Sexuality
- Art
- Art, Modern
- Art, Renaissance
- Physical appearance of Jesus Christ
- Sex in art
- Christusdarstellung
- Kunst
- Renaissance
- Sexualität
- Iconografie
- Seksualiteit
- Beeldende kunsten
- Sexualité > Dans l'art
- Art de la Renaissance > Thèmes, motifs
- Genre/Form
- works of art.
- Art
- Art.
- Œuvres d'art.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-397) and index.
- Contents
- The sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art and in modern oblivion (1983) -- Excursuses (1983). I. Whether the subject exists ; II. Whether the subject ought to be publicized ; III. Regarding the reached-for chin ; IV. Of the practice of fondling a man-child's genitalia ; V. The Baldung Grien woodcut : irreligious or orthodox? ; VI. Who needs God's divinity proved? ; VII. Dogma as pictorial subject, including the precociousness and the smile of the Child ; VIII. God's greater deed ; IX. The signal at the breast ; X. "Complete in all the parts of a man" ; XI. The necessary nudity of the suffering Christ ; XII. Baptism and required dress ; XIII. The virginity of Christ ; XIV. Potency under check ; XV. Concerning Michelangelo's Risen Christ ; XVI. Of the nudity of the Christ Child ; XVII. The body as hierarchy ; XVIII. 14th-century nudity ; XIX. Gossamer at the hips ; XX. Exposure as revelation ; XXI. A digression on the "Stone of Unction" ; XXII. The eighth day ; XXIII. Resisting the physical evidence of circumcision ; XXIV. Of sermons and homilophobia ; XXV. The blood hyphen ; XXVI. The calendrical style of the Circumcision ; XXVII. The showing in Bethlehem ; XXVIII. The protection motif ; XXIX. Images of self-touch and of Infant erection ; XXX. Bowdlerism ; XXXI. "A peculiar notion" ; XXXII. On the afterlife of Boccaccio's jest ; XXXIII. Sesostris' hieroglyph ; XXXIV. Wings of excess ; XXXV. Not other than willed ; XXXVI. The un-dead hand on the groin ; XXXVII. In imitation of Christ ; XXXVIII. The Throne of Grace ; XXXIX. Postscript / by John W. O'Malley, S.J. -- Retrospect (1995). Reintroduction ; 1. The second coming of Adam ; 2. New arrivals ; 3. Explaining away ; 4. The pendulum of Christ's human nature : a theological interlude ; 5. The ibiquity of the erection motif ; 6. Please delete sexuality ; 7. A trial of texts ; 8. Further lines of resistance ; 9. Ad bynum -- Epilogue: Lines of convergence.
- ISBN
- 0226771865
- 9780226771861
- 0226771873
- 9780226771878
- LCCN
- 96003933
- 9780226771878
- OCLC
- ocm34190309
- 34190309
- SCSB-360465
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library