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A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750
Margaret R. Miles
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Description for A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750
Hardback. Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open an interpretive view of Western European history. Num Pages: 196 pages, 12 color illustrations, 28 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: AGR; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this provocative work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open a dazzling interpretive view of Western European history over four centuries. Margaret R. Miles finds that while in 1350 the Virgin's bare breast represented nourishment and loving care - God's provision for the Christian - by 1750, artistic representations of the breast were either erotic or medical. The breast had lost its meaning as a religious symbol. But how did the breast, and nakedness more generally, lose the ability to represent human bodies as site ... Read more
Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this provocative work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open a dazzling interpretive view of Western European history over four centuries. Margaret R. Miles finds that while in 1350 the Virgin's bare breast represented nourishment and loving care - God's provision for the Christian - by 1750, artistic representations of the breast were either erotic or medical. The breast had lost its meaning as a religious symbol. But how did the breast, and nakedness more generally, lose the ability to represent human bodies as site ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520253483
SKU
V9780520253483
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About Margaret R. Miles
Margaret R. Miles is Emerita Professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is author of The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought; Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture; Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West; Reading for Life: Beauty, Pluralism, and Responsibility, and Seeing and Believing: ... Read more
Reviews for A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750
"A note of hope and a gesture toward a more erotic and mystical future." Church History "[A] slender, provocative volume... Miles has delivered a careful analysis that will prove essential and an enjoyable read."
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