Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body

by Richard Warren

Book Overview

This book explores Symbolist artists' fascination with ancient Greek art and myth, and how the erotic played a major role in this. For a brief period at the end of the 19th century the Symbolist movement inspired artists to turn inwards to the unconscious mind, endeavouring to unveil the secrets of human nature through their symbolic art. But above all their greatest interest, and fear, was man (and woman's) sexuality. Building upon the traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350194565
• ISBN13: 9781350194564
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"