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The Boy

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#362556-KN44
Titel	The Boy
Auteur	Greer, Germaine
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Thames and Hudson
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	050023809X
ISBN13	9780500238097
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blind stamped grey boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, coloured endpapers, numerous (full page) illustrations in colour and b/w (including photographs), 4to.
Samenvatting	Conventional wisdom has it that in visual culture the female body, not the male, is viewed as the primary object of desire. Germaine Greer argues that until the nineteenth century the image of the female body was not drawn from life but constructed on aesthetic principles. The naked body that was instead studied and portrayed with heart-stopping immediacy in hundreds of guises, most of them to some extent erotic, some of them sadistic, is that of the boy. In exploring the iconic ideal of the beautiful boy, Germaine Greer demolishes one of the last Western taboos. With over two hundred images drawn from the whole history of Western art, illustrating the vicissitudes of the beautiful male - as toy boy, virgin soldier, naked martyr or winged genius, angel or seducer, narcissist or worshipper ... (Lees verder)- they are invited to appreciate boys in all their sensuality, spontaneity and vulnerability.
Pagina's	256
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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