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Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body (Hardcover)
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Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
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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 of
Academic neoclassicism, but fired with a new zeal, they turned back
to Greek art and myth for inspiration. That classical legacy was
once again a vehicle for artists to express their dreams, ideas and
revelries. And so too their anxieties. For at times the frightening
spectre of the sexual unconscious drove them to a new and
innovative engagement with antiquity, including in ways never
before tried in the history of the classical tradition. The
unnerving sirens of Gustave Moreau, unearthly heroines of Odilon
Redon, or leering fauns of Felicien Rops all played their role,
among others, in this novel and unprecedented chapter in that
tradition. This book shows how in their painting, drawing and
sculpture the Symbolists re-invented Greek statuary and transposed
it to new and unwonted contexts, as the imaginary inner worlds of
artists were mapped onto the landscapes of Greek myth. It shows how
they made of the Greek body, whether female, male, androgyne or
sexual other, at once an object of beauty, desire, fear, and - at
times - of horror.
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