Oberlin College and Conservatory

Sex in the Kitchen: the social iconography of male bodies during the Renaissance

Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Allen Memorial Art Building
87 North Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074

Baldwin Lecture Series Presents: Professor Patricia Simons from the University of Michigan Miracles, Images, and the Italian Renaissance By examining the erotic sense of cooking utensils and of preparing a feast in early modern culture, this lecture contributes to rethinking both the phallic model of masculinity and the way in which we investigate the meaning of images. Before modern medicine and psychoanalysis, male and female bodies were understood in terms of differences in fluids and temperature more than body parts. Humour and corporeal experience help us understand the metaphors and word play that inform the visual.

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