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Seduced Marina Wallace

Seduced By Marina Wallace

Seduced by Marina Wallace


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A survey of representations of sex across cultures from ancient times to the modern day. Featuring such diverse works as Roman marbles, Japanese woodcuts, Indian manuscripts, and Renaissance and Baroque paintings, this book reveals how art with a sexual content has been collected, openly displayed, concealed or prohibited over time.

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Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now by Marina Wallace

Seduced is a provocative and ambitious survey of representations of sex across cultures from ancient times to the modern day. Featuring such diverse works as Roman marbles, Japanese woodcuts, Indian manuscripts, Renaissance and Baroque paintings, nineteenth-century photographs and contemporary videos, this fascinating book reveals how art with a sexual content has been collected, openly displayed, concealed or prohibited over time. It provokes us to question the lines drawn between art and pornography and to examine our own boundaries of acceptability and censorship. This is the first major study of the visual representation of sex and changing attitudes towards explicit imagery throughout history. It includes works spanning 2000 years by over 70 artists, among them Rembrandt, Kitagawa Utamaro, J.M.W. Turner, Pablo Picasso, Egon Schiele, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Jeff Koons.

Seduced Reviews

Explicitly illustrated, though scholarly - THE TIMES A romp through 2,000 years of art history's frankest moments - THE GUARDIAN It's the refusal to bow to censorship that makes this book such a jolting insight into the precarious nature between art and pornography - it manages to be both light-heartedly entertaining and seriously thought-provoking - ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS

About Marina Wallace

Marina Wallace is a professor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London. Martin Kemp is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford. Joanne Bernstein is an independent curator.

Additional information

GOR007267521
9781858944166
1858944163
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now by Marina Wallace
Used - Good
Hardback
Merrell Publishers Ltd
20071004
224
N/A
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