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The beauty of the human body has found a daring beholder in art historian George Hersey, who for the first time brings modern Darwinian theories of sexual selection (mate competition, attractor manipulation, and the like) into the history of art. The Evolution of Allure shows how Western art has channeled mate choice, exploiting the cosmetics, clothes, muscles, organs, and ornaments that showcase the body. From the Medici Venus to Vitruvius, Leonardo, Durer, and the phone-sex goddesses of D-Cup Superstars, Hersey?s lively, erotically charged text shows that the formulas set forth by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos have established a Western canon of human gestures and proportions and may have influenced human evolution. Victorian teachings wrapped this Polykleitan vision in Aryan racial theories and in aspects of early modern physical anthropology. Chapters on Francis Galton, Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau, W. H. Sheldon and his infamous posture pictures, and the Nazi theorist Paul Schultze-Naumburg deal with the biological decline that degenerate artists like Rembrandt, Rodin, and Whistler would supposedly help bring about. Hersey concludes with an excursus on the current hyperdevelopment, in both sexes, of breasts and muscles, as exemplified in the likes of body builders, Batman, and the Incredible Hulk.

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title The Evolution of Allure Sexual Selection From the Medici Venus to - photo 1

title:The Evolution of Allure : Sexual Selection From the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk
author:Hersey, George L.
publisher:MIT Press
isbn10 | asin:0262082446
print isbn13:9780262082440
ebook isbn13:9780585032535
language:English
subjectSex role in art, Art and society.
publication date:1996
lcc:N8241.5.H47 1996eb
ddc:700
subject:Sex role in art, Art and society.
The Evolution of
Allure
THE MIT PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
LONDON, ENGLAND
The Evolution Of
Allure
Sexual Selection
From The
Medici Venus
To The
Incredible Hulk
GEORGE L. HERSEY
1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
This book was set in Meta by The MIT Press.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hersey, George L.
The evolution of allure: sexual selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk/
George L. Hersey.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-08244-6 (hc: alk. paper)
1. Sex role in art. 2. Art and society. I. Title.
N8241.S.H47 1996
700dc20 Picture 2Picture 3Picture 495-38927
Picture 5Picture 6Picture 7Picture 8CIP
To Jane Maddox Lancefield Hersey
Contents
Acknowledgments ix Introduction Aphrodites Daughters xi - photo 9
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Aphrodite's Daughters
xi
1 Sexual Selection
1
Picture 10
Augmentation
5
Picture 11
Borrowing, Translation, and Exchange
8
Picture 12
Sperm Competition
10
Picture 13
Clothes as Genital Maps
12
2 Incarnate Christs and Selectable Saints
21
Picture 14
The Incarnation
22
Picture 15
The Immaculate Conception
26
Picture 16
Magdalen and Teresa
32
3 Body Canons
41
Picture 17
Polykleitos, Praxiteles, and Vitruvius
44
Picture 18
Canons and Number: Alberti, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Drer, and Lomazzo
47
Picture 19
William Wetmore Story and the Seal of Solomon
56
4 Aryans and Semites
61
Picture 20
Aryanism
62
Picture 21
Aryan Art: Frederic Leighton
69
Picture 22
Semitic Art: The Etruscans, Cimabue, and Michelangelo
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