| Beauty and the Male Body in Byzantium: Perceptions and Representations in Art and Text 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Hatzaki, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230007155 ISBN-13: 9780230007154 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: "Beauty and the Beast" looks into physical beauty in Byzantium, and reveals a quality with an unmistakable dark side. It is the curious dynamics of beauty in general, and male beauty in particular, that this book aims to unravel in a way that affects our perception of the (male) body in Byzantium and of beauty in the Byzantine world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Medieval - Art | Subjects & Themes - Human Figure - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 704.942 |
| LCCN: 2009042631 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 254 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Sex & Gender - Masculine - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A neglected aspect of Byzantium, physical beauty appears as a quality with an unmistakable dark side, relating ambiguously to notions of power, goodness, evil, masculinity, effeminacy, life and death. Examined as an attribute of the human and, in particular, of the male body, this study of beauty refines our understanding of the Byzantine world. |