Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body

"This book explores Symbolist artists' fascination with ancient Greek art and myth, and how the erotic played a major role in this. For a brief period at the end of the 19th century the Symbolist movement inspired artists to turn inwards to the unconscious mind, endeavouring to unveil the secrets of human nature through their symbolic art. But above all their greatest interest, and fear, was man (and woman's) sexuality. Building upon the traditions of Academic neoclassicism, but fired with a new zeal, they turned back to Greek art and myth for inspiration"--

שנה

2019

שפה

English

הוצאה

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

מהדורות

3

עמודים

267

ISBN

9781350042346

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata