HOT DRY MEN COLD WET WOMEN

Paperback
Publisher: American Federation of Arts (August 1997)
Language: English
ISBN: 1885444060
Product Dimensions: 1.0 x 9.2 x 12.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.45 pounds

FB-4060

$49.00

An expert on 17th-century art, Massachusetts professor Zirka Filipczak looks at key examples of art from Rembrandt van Rijn, Giusepe Cesari, and other Flemish and Italian painters and sculptors with an eye to the then-accepted medical concept of humors. The idea that women were of a colder, wetter temperament and men of a hotter, drier one was so widely believed that artists and their viewers would not have given it conscious thought, yet it would have made an image seem somehow strange if it were depicted otherwise. In 70 color and black and white plates, each analyzed and placed in context, the book considers the depictions of women in particular, exploring such conventions as pale skin, limp postures, and vulnerability, particularly when their bodies became "too heated."

Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present                      

 


Item code: 32544
ISBN: 0140172483
Authors: Lillian Faderman, ed.
Pages/Length: 810
Publisher:
Penguin/QPB
Publication Date: 1994
Format: Paperback
Primary Subject: Literature


$19.95

Multiple Lambda Book Award winner Lillian Lillian Faderman begins this generous
anthology with a passage from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own Are
there no men present?... We are all women, you assure me? Then I may tell you
that the very next words I read were these—'Chloe liked Olivia....' Do not
start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our society that these
things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women. In this collection of
works from over 70 authors over the last few centuries, Faderman brings together
not only the works Woolf predicted would someday be written but also those works
about female-female relationships that preceded her, whether recognized as such
or not. The collection includes pieces from Anna Seward, Emily Dickinson, Willa
Cather, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Amy Lowell, Katherine Mansfield, H.D.,
Carson McCullers, Rita Mae Brown, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Pat Barker, and
Jeanette Winterson. Faderman provides a brief biographical sketch of each author.

Item code: 51877
ISBN: 188805493X
Authors: Forrest J. Ackerman & Brad Linaweaver.
Pages/Length: 176
Publisher: Collectors Press
Publication Date: 2004
Format: Cloth
Primary Subject: Art
 
Date Added: 6/6/2005
: $39.95

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Gigantic insects, bat-winged rocket ships, menacing robots, and scantily clad
heroines—the science fiction pulp magazines and book covers of the 1920s through
the 60s are emblematic of a time when men of action stepped boldly into the
future, and science would surely save—or destroy—all mankind. Lifetime science
fiction fan, memorabilia collector, and B-movie icon Forrest J. Ackerman—Forry
to the likes of pals Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen—teamed up with protégé and
Nebula Award finalist Brad Linaweaver to present this thrilling and amazing
collection of 275 pulp covers in startling color. Illustrations that attempt
realistic predictions of space travel—Dell's 1947 edition of H.G. Wells'
First Men in the Moon, or Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 Prelude to Space,
for example—are side by side with lurid depictions of bug-eyed monsters
clutching women in lamé halter tops, as well as the seemingly endless variations
of ;giant buzzsaw terror machines; that Hugo Gernsback liked to put on his
magazines. The album also demonstrates how this graphic genre continues to
inspire popular culture, as rocket vehicles shaped like World War II fighter
planes blast from the sea into the sky on a 1945 cover of Super Science and
Fantastic Stories, reminiscent of scenes in the 2004 movie Sky Captain
and the World of Tomorrow.
 

The Swords of Night and Day: A Novel of Skilgannon the Damned

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