Title:
The boy
Author:
Greer, Germaine, 1939-
ISBN:
9780500238097
9780500284889
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Publication Information:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Physical Description:
256 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents:
What is a Boy? -- The Boy is Beautiful -- Love is a Boy -- The Castration of Cupid -- The Passive Love Object -- Play Boys -- Servant Boys -- Soldier Boys -- The Icon of Male Vulnerability -- The Female Gaze.
Abstract:
"With over two hundred images drawn from the whole history of Western art, illustrating the vicissitudes of the beautiful male, as toy boy, virgin soldier, naked martyr or winged genius, angel or seducer, narcissist or worshipper, we are invited to appreciate boys in all their sensuality, spontaneity and vulnerability. In exploring the iconic ideal of the beautiful boy, whether a sculpture of Cupid or David, a painting by Caravaggio or Van Dyck, or a photograph by Nan Goldin or Sally Mann, Germaine Greer demolishes one of the last great Western taboos."--BOOK JACKET.
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