A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750

by Margaret R. Miles

Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this provocative work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open a dazzling interpretive view of Western European history over four centuries. Margaret R. Miles finds that while in 1350 the Virgin's bare breast represented nourishment and loving care--God's provision for the Christian--by 1750, artistic representations of the breast were either erotic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520253485
• ISBN13: 9780520253483
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"