HEAVEN AND THE FLESH by Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson ( 9780521070942 )

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Title:

HEAVEN AND THE FLESH
IMAGERY OF DESIRE FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ROCOCO

By:

Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521070945

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9780521070942

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 May, 2008

Pages:

256

Description:

The book studies the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from Renaissance to Romanticism.

Synopsis:

Do angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritual salvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven and the Flesh Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson explore the opinions of poets and painters on such questions, from the high Renaissance to the birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyse the work not only of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton and Michelangelo, but also of lesser-known figures such as John Gore and Richard Tompson, and the sometimes anguished speculations of philosophers and theologians. As the evidence of witty pornographic poems and drawings demonstrates, the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension was not always treated with full seriousness. This wide-ranging survey offers sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.

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50 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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