Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art

Rubin Patricia Lee

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ISBN 10: 0300236557 ISBN 13: 9780300236552

Published by Yale University Press, 2018

Language: English

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Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art

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Yale University Press

Publication Date

2018

Language

English

ISBN 10

0300236557

ISBN 13

9780300236552

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Hardcover

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1st

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Dust Jacket Condition

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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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Patricia Lee Rubin is professor of Renaissance art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

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