Looking at Lovemaking Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B. C. - A. D. 250

Name: Looking at Lovemaking Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B. C. - A. D. 250
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ISBN: 9780520229044

ISBN-10: 0520229045

ISBN-13: 9780520229044

Edition: 1998

Authors: John R. Clarke

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What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question--and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society in a study informed by recent gender and cultural studies, and focusing for the first time on attitudes toward the erotic among both the Roman non-elite and women. This splendid volume is the first study of erotic art and sexuality to set these works--many newly discovered and previously unpublished--in their ancient context and the first to define the differences between modern and ancient…

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List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

John R. Clarkeis Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor of History of Art at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author ofArt in the Lives of Ordinary Romans(UC Press, 2003),Roman Sex(2003),Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art,100 B.C.- A.D. 250(UC Press, 1998), andThe Houses of Roman Italy: 100 B.C.- A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration(UC Press, 1991).



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Cultural Construction of Sexuality



Greek and Hellenistic Constructions of Lovemaking


The Augustan and Early Julio-Claudian Periods (27 B.C.-A.D. 30)



Representations of Male-to-Male Lovemaking



Representations of Male-to-Female Lovemaking



Sex and the Body of the Other


Pompeii: The Neronian and Flavian Periods (A.D. 54-79)



The Display of Erotica and the Erotics of Display in Houses



The Display of Erotica and the Erotics of Display in Public Buildings


Italy and the Provinces: The First through the Third Centuries



The Invention and Spread of Sexual Imagery through the Roman World


Conclusions


Notes


Glossary


A Guide to Classical Texts


Bibliography


Index