TY - BOOK ID - 17966583 TI - Looking at lovemaking : constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 PY - 1998 SN - 0520200241 9780520229044 0520229045 PB - Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Art, Roman KW - Erotic art KW - Sex in art. KW - Themes, motives. KW - Seksualiteit in de kunst KW - Sex in art KW - Sexe dans l'art KW - Art romain KW - Art érotique KW - Sexualité dans l'art KW - Themes, motives KW - Thèmes, motifs KW - Art [Roman ] KW - Rome KW - Sex in the arts KW - Sexuality in art KW - Art, Erotic KW - Art, Immoral KW - Erotic art, Primitive KW - Roman art KW - Art KW - Erotica KW - Classical antiquities KW - Art érotique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17966583 AB - Looking at Lovemaking depicts a sophisticated, pre-Christian society that placed a high value on sexual pleasure and the art that represented it. Clarke shows how this culture evolved within religious, social, and legal frameworks that were vastly different from our own and contributes an original and controversial chapter to the history of human sexuality. What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question. He reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society in a study informed by recent gender and cultural studies, and focusing for the first time on attitudes toward the erotic among both the Roman non-elite and women. This splendid volume is the first study of erotic art and sexuality to set these works--many newly discovered and previously unpublished--in their ancient context and the first to define the differences between modern and ancient concepts of sexuality using clear visual evidence. ER -