Sexuality in ancient art : Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy /
edited by Natalie Boymel Kampen ; with Bettina Bergmann, Ada Cohen, Page duBois, Barbara Kellum and Eva Stehle.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- xvii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction/ Natalie Boymel Kampen -- Sex, rhetoric, and the public monument: the alluring body of Naram-Sin of Agade/ Irene J. Winter -- Dress, undress, and the Representation of fertility and potency in New Kingdom Egyptian art/ Gay Robins -- Sex and the politics of female adornment in Pre-Archaemenid Iran (1000-800 B.C.E.)/ Michelle I. Marcus -- Archaic bodies-in-pieces/ Page duBois -- Desiring women on Athenian pottery -- Robin Osborne -- Eros, desire, and the gaze/ Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux, translation by Nancy Kline -- Women looking at women: women's ritual and temple sculpture/ Eva Stehle and Amy Day -- Portrayals of abduction in Greek art: rape or metaphor?/ Ada Cohen -- Reflections/ Andrew Stewart -- Etruscan sexuality and funerary art/ Larissa Bonfante -- The phallus as signifier: the forum of Augustus and rituals of masculinity/ Barbara Kellum -- Hypersexual black men in Augustan baths: ideal somatotypes and apotropaic magic/ John Clarke -- The pregnant moment: tragic wives in the Roman interior/ Bettina Bergmann -- The calculus of Venus: Nude portraits of Roman matrons/ Eve D'Ambra -- Omphale and the instability of gender/ Natalie Boymel Kampen -- Naturalism and the erotics of the gaze: intimations of Narcissus/ John Elsner -- Winckelmann's "Homosexual" teleologies/ Whitney Davis.
"Sexuality in Ancient Art is the first anthology to examine the visual representation of the sexual body, sexual activity and desire, and the role of sexuality in the formation of personality and social institutions. Bringing together essays by historians of the art of Egypt and the Ancient Near East, Greece, the Etruscans, and Rome, this collection demonstrates how a variety of methods and theoretical frames, including the traditionally archaeological and art historical, deconstructive, psychoanalytic, feminist, and Foucaultian, can be used to define and articulate these issues. The goal of this volume is to open a range of new subjects and approaches in the visual arts and the problems of representation for students and scholars of the ancient world." -- Back cover.