Rear View A Brief and Elegant History of Bottoms Through the Ages

Name: Rear View A Brief and Elegant History of Bottoms Through the Ages
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ISBN: 9780517708149

ISBN-10: 0517708140

ISBN-13: 9780517708149

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jean-Luc Hennig

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Witty, cultured, provocative, and shamelessly enjoyable, The Rear View is a celebration of the behind, ranging from its physical evolution to its history as a source of artistic and literary inspiration and as a barometer of social attitudes. The ancient Greeks revered the buttocks as being an aspect of the divine and portrayed them enthusiastically on marble statuary. With the Christian era, however, depiction of the nude figure sank into shameful ignominy until the fifteenth century, when Florentine artists once more raised the bottom to subliminal heights, from which lofty eminence it was dashed by the prudish Victorians, who found everything from the waist down a source of…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Jean-Luc Hennig is a Professor at the University of Cairo and a writer for Libï¿½ration, Paris.