Looking At Lovemaking

Author : John R. Clarke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520935860

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Looking at Lovemaking by John R. Clarke Pdf

What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question—and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society in a study informed by recent gender and cultural studies, and focusing for the first time on attitudes toward the erotic among both the Roman non-elite and women. This splendid volume is the first study of erotic art and sexuality to set these works—many newly discovered and previously unpublished—in their ancient context and the first to define the differences between modern and ancient concepts of sexuality using clear visual evidence. Roman artists pictured a great range of human sexual activities—far beyond those mentioned in classical literature—including sex between men and women, men and men, women and women, men and boys, threesomes, foursomes, and more. Roman citizens paid artists to decorate expensive objects, such as silver and cameo glass, with scenes of lovemaking. Erotic works were created for and sold to a broad range of consumers, from the elite to the very poor, during a period spanning the first century B.C. through the mid-third century of our era. This erotic art was not hidden away, but was displayed proudly in homes as signs of wealth and luxury. In public spaces, artists often depicted outrageous sexual acrobatics to make people laugh. Looking at Lovemaking depicts a sophisticated, pre-Christian society that placed a high value on sexual pleasure and the art that represented it. Clarke shows how this culture evolved within religious, social, and legal frameworks that were vastly different from our own and contributes an original and controversial chapter to the history of human sexuality.

Author : John R. Clarke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520229044

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Looking at Lovemaking by John R. Clarke Pdf

"Clarke teaches us to think about how this art was understood and felt by those who lived with it in their daily lives and he speculates that it might even reflect what the Romans actually did. This is the first genuinely contextual and theoretically informed study we have of a vast panoply of classical art about sex. It will be an illuminating book for classicists, historians, and anybody else who finds lovemaking interesting."—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex "There are few scholars as able to take on this material, as well versed in theories of sexuality, and as comfortable dealing with both heterosexual and homoerotic content as Clarke. The topic is timely and the execution is professional."—Natalie Kampen, Barnard College "This book should attract not only classicists, but also scholars of sexuality in any field. Clarke succeeds both in introducing little-known material and in defamiliarizing the familiar examples of erotic art."—Anthony Corbeill, University of Kansas "Looking at Lovemaking proves that the ancients were very different from you and me—that they saw sex not primarily as procreation and never as sin but rather as sport, art, and pleasure, an activity full of humor, tenderness and above all variety. John R. Clarke, by looking at Roman artifacts from several centuries destined to be used by different social classes, reveals that the erotic visual record is far more varied, open-minded and playful than are written moral strictures, which were narrowly formulated by the élite and for the élite. This book is at once discreet and bold—discreetly respectful of nuance and context, boldly clear in drawing the widest possible conclusions about the malleability of human behavior. Clarke has, with meticulous scholarship and a fresh approach, vindicated Foucault's revolutionary claims for the social construction of sexuality."—Edmund White, author of The Beautiful Room is Empty

Author : John R. Clarke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520237339

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Looking at Laughter by John R. Clarke Pdf

In this fresh, accessible, and beautifully illustrated book, his third to examine an aspect of Roman visual culture, John R. Clarke explores the question, "What made Romans laugh?" Looking at Laughter examines a heterogeneous corpus of visual material, from the crudely obscene to the exquisitely sophisticated and from the playful to the deadly serious—everything from street theater to erudite paintings parodying the emperor. Nine chapters, organized under the rubrics of Visual Humor, Social Humor, and Sexual Humor, analyze a wide range of visual art, including wall painting, sculpture, mosaics, and ceramics. Archaeological sites, as well as a range of ancient texts, inscriptions, and graffiti, provide the background for understanding the how and why of humorous imagery. This entertaining study offers fascinating insights into the mentality of Roman patrons and viewers who enjoyed laughing at the gods, the powers-that-be, and themselves.

Author : John R. Clarke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520248151

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Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans by John R. Clarke Pdf

"Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans is superbly out of the ordinary. John Clarke's significant and intriguing book takes stock of a half-century of lively discourse on the art and culture of Rome's non-elite patrons and viewers. Its compelling case studies on religion, work, spectacle, humor, and burial in the monuments of Pompeii and Ostia, which attempt to revise the theory of trickle-down Roman art, effectively refine our understanding of Rome's pluralistic society. Ordinary Romans-whether defined in imperialistic monuments or narrating their own stories through art in houses, shops, and tombs-come to life in this stimulating work."—Diana E. E. Kleiner, author of Roman Sculpture "John R. Clarke again addresses the neglected underside of Roman art in this original, perceptive analysis of ordinary people as spectators, consumers, and patrons of art in the public and private spheres of their lives. Clarke expands the boundaries of Roman art, stressing the defining power of context in establishing Roman ways of seeing art. And by challenging the dominance of the Roman elite in image-making, he demonstrates the constitutive importance of the ordinary viewing public in shaping Roman visual imagery as an instrument of self-realization."—Richard Brilliant, author of Commentaries on Roman Art, Visual Narratives, and Gesture and Rank in Roman Art "John Clarke reveals compelling details of the tastes, beliefs, and biases that shaped ordinary Romans' encounters with works of art-both public monuments and private art they themselves produced or commissioned. The author discusses an impressively wide range of material as he uses issues of patronage and archaeological context to reconstruct how workers, women, and slaves would have experienced works as diverse as the Ara Pacis of Augustus, funerary decoration, and tavern paintings at Pompeii. Clarke's new perspective yields countless valuable insights about even the most familiar material."—Anthony Corbeill, author of Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome "How did ordinary Romans view official paintings glorifying emperors? What did they intend to convey about themselves when they commissioned art? And how did they use imagery in their own tombstones and houses? These are among the questions John R. Clarke answers in his fascinating new book. Charting a new approach to people's art, Clarke investigates individual images for their functional connections and contexts, broadening our understanding of the images themselves and of the life and culture of ordinary Romans. This original and vital book will appeal to everyone who is interested in the visual arts; moreover, specialists will find in it a wealth of stimulating ideas for further study."—Paul Zanker, author of The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity

Author : Tatiana Ivleva,Rob Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351980432

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Un-Roman Sex by Tatiana Ivleva,Rob Collins Pdf

Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender identities. At its core, it challenges the unproblematised extension of the traditional Romano-Hellenistic model to the provinces and frontiers. Did sexual relations and gender identities undergo processes of "provincialisation" or "barbarisation" similar to other well-known aspects of cultural negotiation and syncretism in provincial and border regions, for example in art and religion? The 11 chapters that make up the volume explore these issues from a variety of angles, providing a balanced and rounded view through use of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence. Accordingly, the contributions represent new and emerging ideas on the subject of sex, gender, and sexuality in the Roman provinces. As such, Un-Roman Sex will be of interest to higher-level undergraduates and graduates/academics studying the Roman empire, gender, and sexuality in the ancient world and at the Roman frontiers.

Author : Kate Fisher,Rebecca Langlands
Publisher : Classical Presences
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199660513

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Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past by Kate Fisher,Rebecca Langlands Pdf

Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about and represent sex, what social institutions should regulate it, and what are other people doing? Throughout history human beings have searched for answers to such questions by turning to the past, whether through archaeological studies of prehistoric sexual behaviour, by reading Casanova's memoirs, or as modern visitors on the British Museum LGBT trail. In this ground-breaking collection, leading scholars show that claims about the past have been crucial in articulating sexual morals, driving political, legal, and social change, shaping individual identities, and constructing and grounding knowledge about sex. With its interdisciplinary perspective and its focus on the construction of knowledge, the volume explores key methodological problems in the history of sexuality, and is also an inspiration and a provocation to scholars working in related fields - historians, classicists, Egyptologists, and scholars of the Renaissance and of LGBT and gender studies - inviting them to join a much-needed interdisciplinary conversation.

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1626548803

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Roman Sex by John Clarke Pdf

Roman Sex provides a fresh and provocative account of ancient Roman sexual practices. Featuring 114 illustrations, including 95 full-color plates, Roman Sex explains for the first time a wealth of newly discovered sexual art including many paintings, sculptures, and vases hidden away in the world's "secret museums."John R. Clarke, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Rome, puts these works of art back into their original context--whether in the home, brothel, or banquet table--and reveals ancient Roman attitudes on sex and sexuality.The first Women's Liberation movement also took place in this period, and Clarke explains how and when it came about. He shows how and why the Roman man was a bisexual creature, alternating his affections between women and men, and how society treated the entrenched homosexual. Lesbian sex, illustrated by startling new discoveries at Pompeii, also gets full treatment.Romans, both rich and poor, proudly displayed images in their homes that today we would hide away. Clarke takes the reader into a society markedly different from ours in its attitudes toward sex. With all its quirks, it was a sexually tolerant society that encouraged the creation and open display of erotic art. Roman Sex will appeal to any reader who wants to understand this culture, which was in many ways the forerunner of our own.

Author : David Fredrick
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0801869617

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The Roman Gaze by David Fredrick Pdf

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Author : Ellen E. Berry
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780814712481

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Postcommunism and the Body Politic by Ellen E. Berry Pdf

The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries. The postcommunist moment in the so-called Second World--Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--has dramatically exposed the opportunities and dangers that arise when the political, cultural, and economic foundations of a society are de- and then re-structured. Gender roles and relations, expressions of sexuality or attempts to recontain them, representations of the body, especially the female body, and the larger, cultural meanings it assumes, are particularly marked sites to witness the performance of complex national dramas of crisis and change. This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia; Russian women and alcoholism; cinema in post-communist Hungary; patriotism and gender in Poland; sexual dissidence in Eastern Europe; and women in the former Yugoslavia. >[ go to the Genders website ]

Author : Dan Wilson,Linda Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 142455005X

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Lovemaking by Dan Wilson,Linda Wilson Pdf

Sex is meant to be beautiful, holy, and fun, and every married person can be skilled in the art of lovemaking. Lovemaking will help to: Increase your degree of sexual satisfaction, Understand the purpose and pleasure of godly sexuality, Learn how to give and receive love through sexual expression, Renew passion for your mate, Be equipped to be the "world's greatest lover" for your spouse. Great sex is godly. God is the ultimate Lover, and He created us to love. He placed creativity in us to make sex exciting, never dull or routine. You can fully realize the tremendous potential for joy, fulfillment, and purpose in your marriage.

Author : Caroline Vout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Erotic art
ISBN : 0520280202

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Sex on Show by Caroline Vout Pdf

The ancient Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Phallic imagery, sex scenes, and the lively activities of their promiscuous gods adorned many objects, buildings, and sculptures. Drinking cups, oil-lamps, and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction; statues of erect penises served as boundary-stones and signposts; and marble satyrs and nymphs grappled in gardens. Caroline Vout examines the abundance of sexual imagery in Greek and Roman culture. Were these images intended to be shocking, humorous, or exciting? Are they about sex or love? How are we to know whether our responses to them are akin to those of the ancients? The answers to these questions provide fascinating insights into ancient attitudes toward religion, politics, sex, gender, and the body. They also reveal how the ancients saw themselves and their world, and how subsequent centuries have seen them. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this lively and thought-provoking book not only addresses theories of sexual practice and social history, it is also a visual history of what it meant and still means to stare sex in the face.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022924737

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Assaph by Anonim Pdf

Author : James A. Haught
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 087975740X

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The Art of Lovemaking by James A. Haught Pdf

This treasure for couples combats the taboos perfading sexual intimacy by presenting lovemaking as healthy, natural, tender, romantic, wholesome, fulfilling and joyfula tribute to the goodness of sex, incorporating world-class art, poetry, and commentary.

Author : Mary Laing,Katy Pilcher,Nicola Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134495412

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Queer Sex Work by Mary Laing,Katy Pilcher,Nicola Smith Pdf

Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices, meanings and embodiments in the contemporary sex industry. A queer agenda is important in order to challenge hetero-centric gender norms and to develop new insights into how gender, sex, power, crime, work, migration, space/place, health and intimacy are understood in the context of commercial sexual encounters. Queer Sex Work explores what it might mean to ‘be’, ‘do’ and ‘think’ queer(ly) in the study and practice of commercial sex. It brings together a multiplicity of empirical case studies – including erotic dance venues, online sex working, pornography, grey sexual economies, and BSDM – and offers a variety of perspectives from academic scholars, policy practitioners, activists and sex workers themselves. In so doing, the book advances a queer politics of sex work that aims to disrupt heteronormative logics whilst also making space for different voices in academic and political debates about commercial sex. This unique and multidisciplinary volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of the global sex trade and of gender, sexuality, feminism and queer theory more broadly, as well as policymakers, activists and practitioners interested in the politics and practice of sex work in local, national and international contexts.

Author : Lauren Richardson
Publisher : Charlie Ceative Lab
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1801687846

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Sex Guide by Lauren Richardson Pdf

55% OFF for Bookstores! NOW at $54,99 instead of $59,99!  Looking for tips to spice up your sex life? Do you want to improve your relationship with your partner? Do you want to be a master of sex and seduction? You customer will never stop to use this awesome guide for couples! This Boxset Includes: 1. Tantric Sex 2. Sex Positions 3. Dirty Talk 4. Sex Life Having good and rewarding sex is One the most beautiful things in Life. It makes you feel Happier and Healthier. It surely helps in Creating Intimacy and Complicity with you Partner and Enjoying a Beautiful and Long love Story. Many couples go into a relationship believing they know everything they need to know about how to please their partner. That may be true initially, but even for the best of couples, lovemaking can eventually become yet another chore on your list of things to do Sex Guide will help you and your partner get out of a rut, explore sex play, and give your sex life a much-needed boost In the chapters of this book you will find advice on how to upset your sex life by listening to your body and looking for your pleasure In Manuscript 1 "Tantric Sex" you will discover: Understanding what tantric philosophy is Meaning of love and sex for Tantra philosophy - intimacy Advantages and differences with traditional sex How best to prepare your mind and body for tantric sex using techniques for foreplay, massage, and masturbation Tantra exercises and massages for sexual fulfillment of couples Improve Tantric Sex With These Tips - And much more! In Manuscript 2 "Sex Positions" you will discover: How to better connect to your partner on more than a physical level for more passionate lovemaking (Emotional and physical intimacy) The benefits for the couple of the knowledge of sexual positions Sex positions for maximum intimacy, for more adventure, for a challenge, and for pleasure Positions for every skill level, easy to expert with advantages, drawbacks and differences Fun with sex toys Importance of Sexual Fantasies - And much more! In Manuscript 3 "Dirty Talk" you will discover: Defining Dirty Talk A look at the psychology of dirty talk Because dirty talk can be useful for both sex Dirty phrases whispered in public How to overcome taboos by talking dirty in bed Masturbation and sexy talk - And much more! In Manuscript 4 "Sex Life" you will discover: The science behind pleasure and orgasms How to achieve the proper sexual health and how to value sex in the couple How you achieve terrific orgasms with your partner and also by yourself. Easy tips to make your partner more exciting Sexual techniques that upset the couple Break down taboos with bdsm - hints for beginners with basic techniques to revitalize - And much more! Today is the perfect day to change your love life and give your relationship the push it needs to revitalize it and make it just as good or even better than old times. All you have to do is click on that BUY NOW button, and you will be able to begin your journey to becoming the best sexual and romantic partner you can ever be.