Sex or Symbol: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome Hardcover - 1982

A Colonnade Book / British Museum Publications Ltd, London, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. Acknowledgements introduction by author, sources of illustrations and index. The text is illustrated with black-and-white and coloured photographs of artwork. Brown coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Photographic dustwrapper with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. In this book the author investigates the erotic art of ancient Greece and ancient Rome. She explores the role of the sexual images and their part in the civilisations, and, " ... she goes on to demonstrate how much of the material which has been removed from the public (due to prudery) eye was, to which creators and their contemporaries, not erotic at all, but reflected religious concerns, primitive fertility notions, or, in some cases, just plain light-hearted fun." – from the front fold over panel blurb Rubbing of the book corners and softening of the back strip edges. Age toning of the text block edges with previous owners name covered over with a black coloured marker to the top edge of the free front end page. A couple of marks to the end pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [Is 5], 6 - 160 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Greece / Rome; Ancient (BC); Erotica. ISBN: 0714180424. ISBN/EAN: 9780714180427. Inventory No: 0290463. . 9780714180427