Sexuality in ancient art : Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy / edited by Natalie Boymel Kampen with Bettina Bergmann ... [and others].
| Other author | Kampen, Natalie. |
| Other author | Bergmann, Bettina Ann. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996. |
| Description | xvii, 299 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge studies in new art history and criticsm Cambridge studies in new art history and criticsm. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Sex, rhetoric, and the public monument : the alluring body of Naram-Sîn of Agade / Irene J. Winter -- Dress, undress, and the representation of fertility and potency in New Kingdom Egypt art / Gay Robins -- Sex and the politics of female adornment in pre-Achaemenid Iran (1000-800 b.c.e.) / Michelle I. Marcus -- Archaic bodies-in-pieces / Page Dubois -- Desiring women on Athenian pottery / Robin Osborne -- Eros, desire, and the gaze / Franc̜oise Frontisi-Ducroux -- Women looking at women : women's ritual and temple sculpture / Eva Stehle and Amy Day -- |
| Contents | Portrayals of abduction in Greek art : rape or metaphor? / Ada Cohen -- Reflections / Andrew Stewart -- Etruscan sexuality and funeral art / Larissa Bonfante -- Phallus as signifier : the forum of Augustus and rituals of masculinity / Barbara Kellum -- Hypersexual black men in Augustan baths : ideal somatotypes and apotropaic magic / John Clarke -- Pregnant moment : tragic wives in the Roman interior / Bettina Bergmann -- Calculus of Venus : nude portraits of Roman matrons / Eva D'ambra -- |
| Contents | Omphale and the instability of gender / Natalie Boymel Kampen -- Naturalism and the erotics of the gaze : intimations of Narcissus / John Elsner -- Winckelmann's "homosexual" teleologies / Whitney Davis. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288) and index. |
| LCCN | 95041666 |
| ISBN | 0521470994 |
| ISBN | 0521476836 (pbk.) |