Seduced : art & sex from antiquity to now /

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 video...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wallace, Marina
Corporate Author:	Barbican Art Gallery
Other Authors:	Kemp, Martin, Bernstein, Joanne
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Merrell in association with Barbican Art Gallery, 2007.
Subjects:	Sex in art > Exhibitions. Erotic art > Exhibitions. Sex > history. Homosexuality > history Araki, Nobuyoshi, > 1940- Bacon, Francis, > 1909-1992. Beardsley, Aubrey, > 1872-1898. Duchamp, Marcel, > 1887-1968. Dumas, Marlene, > 1953- Emin, Tracey, > 1963- Klimt, Gustav, > 1862-1918. Koons, Jeff, > 1955- Mapplethorpe, Robert, > 1946-1989. Masson, André, > 1896-1987. Rodin, Auguste, > 1840-1917. Ruff, Thomas, > 1958- Sarmento, Julião, > 1948- Schiele, Egon, > 1890-1918. Turner, J. M. W. > (Joseph Mallord William), > 1775-1851. Sexualité dans l'art > Expositions. Art érotique > Expositions. Erotic art Sex in art Ausstellung Erotik > Motiv Erotische Kunst LGBTQ+ erotic art. Exhibition catalogs Exhibition catalogs.

Table of Contents:

Sex & selection / Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp and Joanne Bernstein
Sex & cold marble / Marina Wallace
Under lock & key / Marina Wallace
Divine love & carnal pleasures / Martin Kemp
Exposures / Marina Wallace
Surveying sex / Marina Wallace
Between the covers / Marina Wallace
The pleasures of reading / Caterina Albano
Artist & muse / Joanne Bernstein
Playing with the edge / Joanne Bernstein.