Eros and sexuality in Islamic art
Introduction. Eros and sexuality in Islamic art: old issues and new perspectives / Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif -- Making love not war: the iconography of the cockfight in medieval Egypt / Fahmida Suleman -- The generative garden: sensuality, man love, and eternity in Govardhan's illustration...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Farnham [u.a.]
Ashgate
2013
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| In: | Year: 2013 |
| Reviews: | New Light on Old Misunderstandings (2015) (Renard, John)
[Rezension von: Leoni, Francesca, Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art] (2015) (Brown, Alice) |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islamic art
/ Eroticism (Motif)
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Islamic art and symbolism B Sex in art |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | Introduction. Eros and sexuality in Islamic art: old issues and new perspectives / Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif -- Making love not war: the iconography of the cockfight in medieval Egypt / Fahmida Suleman -- The generative garden: sensuality, man love, and eternity in Govardhan's illustration of Saʻdi's Gulistān / Mika Natif -- Where have all the boys gone? the lady of the 'sala de justicia' ceilings and Nasrid poetics of sacred and profane love / Cynthia Robinson -- Visibly foreign, visibly female: the eroticization of the Zan-I Farangi in seventeenth-century Persian painting / Amy S. Landau -- Frontiers of visual taboos: painted indecencies in Isfahan / Sussan Babaie -- Ottomanizing pornotopia: changing visual codes in eighteenth-century Ottoman erotic miniatures / Tülay Artan and Irvin C. Schick -- 'Not to toil in lonely obsession': modern Persian erotica in the Kinsey Institute -- Christiane J. Gruber |
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| ISBN: | 1409464385 |