Heaven and the Flesh

ISBN-13: 9780521495714 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 254 str.

Clive Hart;Gilliland; Kay Gilliland Stevenson

Opis

Do the angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Heaven and the Flesh explores the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from the High Renaissance to the birth of Romanticism. Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson analyze the work of little-known as well as canonical writers and artists, philosophers and theologians. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated survey offers new and sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.

Recenzje

"Among the handsomest book of the season is Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo, by Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson." Studies in English Literature

Spis treści

1. Sexuality and ascension - finding the way; 2. The woman on top - Christ, Endymion, Ganymede; 3. Paradisiacal bosoms; 4. Imparadised in one another's arms; 5. Heaven and the flesh; 6. The body and ascension in the sacred rococo art of southern Germany and Austria; 7. The assumption and its transformations; 8. Conclusion - Jacob's ladder and Keats's Endymion; Appendix.