| Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film Contributor(s): Palumbo, Donald (Editor), Palumbo, Donald (Other) |
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ISBN: 0313241023 ISBN-13: 9780313241024 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1986 Annotation: This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance art; the use of fantasy as a vehicle for depicting erotic subjects in periods of sexual repression; the fascination with unconscious and aberrant sexuality in the visual arts since the publication of Freud's theories; movie monsters and aliens as emblems of the submerged id or libido; and monstrous metamorphosis as a symbol of the changes accompanying puberty. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy - Art |
| Dewey: 700 |
| LCCN: 85024777 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.22 lbs) 318 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance art; the use of fantasy as a vehicle for depicting erotic subjects in periods of sexual repression; the fascination with unconscious and aberrant sexuality in the visual arts since the publication of Freud's theories; movie monsters and aliens as emblems of the submerged id or libido; and monstrous metamorphosis as a symbol of the changes accompanying puberty. |