This volume provides a pictorial cultural history of the images and iconography of sexuality in the Western world, from the Middle Ages down to the present. The first book of its type, the work contains 328 plates, many heretofore unknown, which comprise the visual tradition of human sexuality. It traces mythmaking about the sexual form, from the early cultural roots of Christianity to more recent mythmaking about AIDS, drawing on material from medicine, anatomy, pathology, art and literature to show how our idea of the body and its sexuality has been portrayed. New material on Jack the Ripper and new interpretations on the contributions of Da Vinci and Goethe are also included. The text will benefit psychologists, psychiatrists, sexologists, physicians, literary and art historians.
- ISBN10 047183792X
- ISBN13 9780471837923
- Publish Date 14 December 1989
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 18 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English