Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome (Colonnade Books) Tapa dura - 1982

Hardback. Good.

British Museum Press. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Colonnade, British Museum Publications, London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Brown covers with gilt lettering on the spine. Fresh covers, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contains colour plates (full page illustrations) and black and white illustrations. No dust-jacket. Previous owner's name, Kerry Downes, in pencil at the front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2kg. ISBN: 0714180424. ISBN/EAN: 9780714180427. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 19022041216. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service.. 9780714180427 This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations..

London: Book Club Associates. As New in Fine dust jacket. 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0714180424 . Brown cloth bound boards with bright silver gilt titling to the spine. In the original publisher's pictorial dustjacket, which is not price-clipped. There is light creasing to the head and tail of the dustjacket spine and to the dustjacket edges, otherwise there are NO inscriptions or other marks. 160 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w and colour plates. Sources of Illustrations; Bibliography; Index. Overall, this is an Excellent, Very Clean, Tight and Bright, Near 'As New' copy. "With 125 black and white and 38 color illustrations, "Sex or Symbol?" shows that while overt sexual representations were common in painting, sculpture, pottery, jewelry and other minor arts, not all the objects that shocked the Victorians had an erotic purpose. Catherine Johns demonstrates that many had a religious and apotropaic function as well as reflecting the classical delight… Leer más

British Museum Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

A Colonnade Book / British Museum Publications Ltd, London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. Acknowledgements introduction by author, sources of illustrations and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white and coloured photographs of artwork. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. In this book the author investigates the erotic art of ancient Greece and ancient Rome. She explores the role of the sexual images and their part in the civilisations, and, " ... she goes on to demonstrate how much of the material which has been removed from the public (due to prudery) eye was, to which creators and their contemporaries, not erotic at all, but reflected religious concerns, primitive fertility notions, or, in some cases, just plain light-hearted fun."… Leer más

London: BCA, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. quarto. Type: Book

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.