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Item Number: 126739
Title: Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art
Author: Leoni, Francesca (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409464389
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 244pp., 8 color, 56 b&w illus. Contents: 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, male intimacy, and eternity in Govardhan’s illustration of Sa’di’s Gulistan, Mika Natif; Where have all the boys gone? The lady of the ‘sala de justica’ ceilings and Nasrid poetics of sacred and profane love, Cynthia Robinson; Visibly foreign, visibly female: the eroticization of the zan-i farangi in 17th-century Persian painting, Amy S. Landau; Frontiers of visual taboos: painted indecencies in Isfahan, Sussan Babaie; Ottomanizing pornotopia: changing visual codes in 18th-century Ottoman erotic miniatures, Tülay Artan and Irvin Cemil Schick; ‘Not to toil in lonely obsession’: modern Persian erotica in the Kinsey Institute, Christiane J. Gruber.
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