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Title Seduction and power : antiquity in the visual and performing arts / edited by Silke Knippschild and Marta García Morcillo
Published London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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Contents Seduction and power: an introduction / Marta García Morcillo and Silke Knippschild -- Power and seduction in Babylon: Verdi's Nabucco / Michael Seymour -- "Go east young man!" jewel-in-the-bellybutton Orientalism in Oliver Stone's Alexander / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones -- Modern dance and the seduction of Minoan Crete / Nicoletta Momigliano -- Trojan lovers and warriors: the power of seduction in age of bronze / Eric Shanower -- Dark ladies, bad girls, demon queens. Female power and seduction from Greek tragedy to pop culture / Martina Treu -- The eroticism of power in Jordi Coca's Ifigènia (2009) / Maite Clavo -- "Prince of painters": the grimacing mask of power and seduction in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen / Andrea Capra and Maddalena Giovanelli -- Redefining catharsis in opera: the power of music in Birtwistle's The minotaur and Amargós' Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte / Jesús Carruesco and Montserrat Reig -- The self in conflict with itself: a heraclitean theme in Eliot's The cocktail party / James H. Lesher -- Three queens: Helen, Penelope, and Dido in Franco Rossi's Odissea and Eneide / Martin M. Winkler -- Claudia quinta and publius cornelius scipio nasica: exempla virtutis in Vienna under Leopold I (1657-1705) / Pepa Castillo -- The stolen seduction: Spartaco, gladiatore della Tracia (Riccardo Freda, Italy 1953) / Oscar Lapeña -- The great seducer: Cleopatra, queen and sex symbol / Francisco Pina Polo -- Seduced, defeated and forever damned: Marc Antony and post-classical imagination / Marta García Morcillo -- Power beyond measure: Caligula, corruption and pop culture / Martin Lindner -- Constantia Memoriae: the reputation of Agrippina the Younger / Mary R. McHugh -- Prostitute, saint, pin-up, revolutionary: the reception of Theodora in 20th-Century Italy / Filippo Carlà -- The spell of Antinous in Renaissance art: the Jonah statue in Santa Maria del Popolo / Rosario Rovira Guardiola -- History, moral and power: the ancient world in 19th century Spanish history painting / Antonio Duplá -- The lure of the Hermaphrodite in the poetry and painting of the English aesthetes / Charlotte Ribeyrol -- Nude on the Acropolis / Constantina Katsari -- Seduction and power in classical receptions: traditions and trends / Silke Knippschild
Summary This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama, but also served to portray historical figures, events and places from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with a diverse range of visual and
Notes Based on a conference held at the University of Bristol in September, 2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Civilization, Ancient, in art -- Congresses
Seduction in art -- Congresses
Power (Social sciences) in art -- Congresses
Civilization, Ancient, in literature -- Congresses
Seduction in literature -- Congresses
Power (Social sciences) in literature -- Congresses
History of art: ancient & classical art, BCE to c 500 CE.
Classical history -- classical civilisation.
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
Civilization, Ancient, in art
Civilization, Ancient, in literature
Power (Social sciences) in art
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Seduction in art
Seduction in literature
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Knippschild, Silke, editor
García Morcillo, Marta, editor
ISBN 9781441154200
1441154205
1441190651
9781441190659
9781472555748
1472555740