Love and the Erotic in Art

Author: Stefano Zuffi
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060090
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
This volume is a romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in art. The book surveys Western artworks illustrating more or less explicitly delicate or amorous subjects.

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588393003
Category : Art del Renaixement
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description
"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.

Secrets of Love

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Boudoir-hopping through the centuries, author/journalist Nigel Cawthorne extends the legacy of the ancient sexual arts to a new generation with this stimulating and instructive compendium of erotic art and literature. 180 full-color illus. 20 b&w illus.

The Art of the Erotic

Author: Phaidon Editors
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714874241
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Carefully curated and beautifully packaged erotic art through the ages – 200 works from the world's most important artists. This carefully curated and beautifully packaged book spotlights nearly 200 works from the world's most important artists, including Titian, Paul Cézanne, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, Cecily Brown, Anselm Kiefer, George Condo, and Anish Kapoor. With its chronological organization, The Art of the Erotic provides insights into human sexuality throughout the ages.

Erotic Art of the East

Author: Philip S. Rawson
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780425034958
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description

Ars Erotica

Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780297822981
Category : Erotic art
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

Socrates' Daimonic Art

Author: Elizabeth S. Belfiore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107378230
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization of Socrates in Symposium, Phaedrus, Lysis and the often neglected Alcibiades I. It focuses on the specific ways in which the philosopher searches for wisdom together with his young interlocutors, using an art that is 'erotic', not in a narrowly sexual sense, but because it shares characteristics attributed to the daimon Eros in Symposium. In all four dialogues, Socrates' art enables him, like Eros, to search for the beauty and wisdom he recognizes that he lacks and to help others seek these same objects of erôs. Belfiore examines the dialogues as both philosophical and dramatic works, and considers many connections with Greek culture, including poetry and theater.

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199229759
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful.--From publisher description.

Art Nouveau and the Erotic

Author: Ghislaine Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
This provocative book shows how Art Nouveau artists & designers explored & exploited the idea of the erotic in their creative endeavors.

The Kiss

Author: Serge Bramly
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN: 9782080200983
Category : Kissing in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Over 130 of the greatest depictions of the kiss in art are accompanied by insightful commentary in this handsome volume. The depiction of the kiss has held special significance throughout the history of art, from classical antiquity to the present. A symbol of erotic passion or maternal love but equally of betrayal and death, the kiss represents one of the greatest legendary motifs. Spanning the ages and the globe, this volume explores the emphasis placed by certain cultures and artists on "the meeting of lips." From Hayez’s medieval kissers to Klimt’s iconic symbolist painting, and from Ingres’s Francesca and Paolo to Picasso’s ethereal cubist couple, this book explains the passionate undertones of the world’s greatest masterpieces. The evocative text is illustrated by works ranging from Hokusai to Cindy Sherman via Mary Cassat, Brancusi, and Lichtenstein.