Seduction and power antiquity in the visual and performing arts edited by Silke Knippschild and Marta García Morcillo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knippschild, Silke, editor of compilation.

García Morcillo, Marta, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient, in art--Congresses.

Civilization, Ancient, in art.

Seduction in art--Congresses.

Seduction in art.

Power (Social sciences) in art--Congresses.

Power (Social sciences) in art.

Civilization, Ancient, in literature--Congresses.

Civilization, Ancient, in literature.

Seduction in literature--Congresses.

Seduction in literature.

Power (Social sciences) in literature--Congresses.

Power (Social sciences) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York, NY Bloomsbury Academic 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 performing arts of the modern era.The volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern audiences and viewers. Drawing on contributions from across Europe and the United States, a trademark of the book is the inclusive treatment of all the arts beyond the traditional limits of academic disciplines

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 / Jesú 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 Carlá

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

Introduction

Part 1: Ancient Western Asia

1. Woman on top? Women's suffrage and the power of the 'oriental woman' - Silke Knippschild

2. Power, sin and seduction in Babylon - the case of Verdi's Nabucco - Michael Seymour

3. Jewel-in-the-belly-button orientalism in Oliver Stone's Alexander - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Part 2: Greece

4. Helen, Penelope and Dido in Rossi's Odissea and Eneide - Martin Winkler

5. Dark ladies, bad girls, demon queens: female power and seduction from Greek tragedy to pop culture - Martina Treu

6. Trojan lovers and warriors - Eric Shanower

7. Film genres in cinematic adaptations of Greek tragedy - Pantelis Michelakis

8. Circe in literature and art of the Renaissance - Irene Berti

9. The erotics of power in Coca's Ifigenia - Maite Clavo

10. 'Prince of painters': the grimacing mask of power and seduction in Aristophanes' The Assemblywomen - Maddalena Giovannelli and Andrea Capra

11. Myth and tragedy in opera staging in the 21st century - Montserrat Reig and Jesus Carruesco

12. Isadora Duncan, Russian ballet and the seduction of Minoan Crete - Nicoletta Momigliano

13. Nelly and the nudes on the Athenian Acropolis in the Fascist era - Constantina Katsari

14. The lure of the hermaphrodite for the English Aesthetes - Charlotte Ribeyrol

Part 3: Rome

15. The stolen seduction - Oscar Lapena

16. The great seducer - Cleopatra, queen and sex symbol - Francisco Pina Polo

17. Seduced, defeated and forever damned - Marc Antony in post-Classical imagery - Marta Garcia Morcillo

18. Caligula in pop culture - Martin Lindner

19. The reputation of Agrippina the Younger - Mary R. McHugh

20. Hadrian, Antinous and the power of seduction - Charo Rivera

21. Saint or prostitute? - the reception of empress Theodora - Filippo Carla

22. History, moral and power - the ancient world in 19th century Spanish art - Antonio Dupla

Conclusion

Notes:

Based on a conference held at the University of Bristol in September, 2010

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9781472555748

1472555740

9781441154200

1441154205

9781441190659

1441190651

OCLC:

855524845