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PrintCollection Name: Drachen Foundation Collection
Collection Number: 2384
Post Type: Book
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Artist or Author: Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson
Creation Year: 1995
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ISBN: 0 521 49571 7 Language: English Description: Do angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritual salvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven and the flesh Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson explore the opinions of poets and painters on such questions, from the high renaissance to the birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyse the work no only of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton and Michelangelo, but also of little known figures, such as John Gore and Richard Tompson, and the sometimes anguished speculations of philosophers and theologians. As the evidence of witty pornographic poems and drawings demonstrates, the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension was not always treated with full seriousness. This wide-ranging survey offers new and sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.
237 pages
Geographic: United Kingdom
Materials: Paper
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