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Sexuality in Western Art (Revised)

Edward Lucie-Smith

Sexuality in its many guises has preoccupied Western artists from Michelangelo to Picasso, Rubens to Robert Mapplethorpe. Almost every form of the subject has been portrayed, whether covert or overt, crude or highly sophisticated. Edward Lucie-Smith considers the fruits of this obsession in his incisive, invigorating text. From the conflation of the sacred and the erotic in Paleolithic art, to the

Book Details

  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
  • Publish Date: Sep 17th, 1991
  • Pages: 290
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.30in - 5.90in - 0.70in - 1.30lb
  • EAN: 9780500202524
  • Categories: Criticism & TheoryHistory - European - General

About the Author

Lucie-Smith, Edward: - Edward Lucie-Smith is well-known as a poet, novelist, biographer, broadcaster, and critic, and he is the author of numerous books, among them The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms, Furniture: A Concise History, Movements in Art Since 1945, Symbolist Art, and Sexuality in Western Art (all in the World of Art series).