Seen from behind : perspectives on the male body and Renaissance art

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Seen from behind : perspectives on the male body and Renaissance art

Patricia Lee Rubin

Yale University Press, 2018

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-277) and index

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Description

Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This original book examines the range of meaning that has been attached to the male backside in Renaissance art and culture, the transformation of the base connotation of the image to high art, and the question of homoerotic impulses or implications of admiring male figures from behind. Representations of the male body's behind have often been associated with things obscene, carnivalesque, comical, or villainous. Presenting serious scholarship with a deft hand, Seen from Behind expands our understanding of the motif of the male buttocks in Renaissance art, revealing both continuities and changes in the ways the images convey meaning and have been given meaning.

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  • NCID
    BB2802196X
  • ISBN
    • 9780300236552
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Haven
  • Pages/Volumes
    288 p.
  • Size
    29 cm
  • Subject Headings
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