| Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Funke, Jana (Editor), Grove, Jen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319958399 ISBN-13: 9783319958392 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 305.3 |
| Series: Genders and Sexualities in History |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.40 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects, sculptures also draw attention to the different ways in which knowledge about sexuality is facilitated through an engagement with the past. Bringing together contributors from across disciplines, including art history, classics, film studies, gender studies, history, literary studies, museum studies, queer theory and reception studies, the volume presents original readings of sculptural art in relation to antiquarianism, aesthetics, collecting cultures, censorship and obscenity, psychoanalysis, sexology, and the experience and regulation of museum spaces. It examines how sculptural encounters were imagined and articulated in literature, painting, film and science. As a whole, the book opens up a new understanding of the ways in which sculptures, as real or imagined objects, have fundamentally shaped approaches to and receptions of the past in relation to sex, gender and sexuality. Chapters 8 and 10 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. |