About this title: From Adonis and images of St. Sebastian to James Dean and Calvin Klein models, beautiful boys have been quietly admired since the beginning of time. While most agree that women have been depicted as sex objects, Greer's sensational thesis is that the erotic charge of male imagery has been rigorously repressed throughout history.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rizzoli
Date Published: 2003-11-15
ISBN-13:9780847825868ISBN:0847825868
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rizzoli
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780847825868ISBN:0847825868
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Edition: First United States Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rizzoli, New York
Date Published: 2003
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new copy. With over 200 images drawn from the whole history of Western art, illustrating the vicissitudes of the beautiful male, as toy boy, virgin soldier, naked martyr or winged genius, angel or seducer, narcissist or worshipper, we are invited to appreciate boys in all their sensuality, spontaneity and vulnerability. In exploring the iconic ideal of the beautiful boy, whether a sculpture of Cupid or David, a painting by Caravaggio or Van Dyck, or a photograph ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Rizzoli
Date Published: 2003-11-15
ISBN-13:9780847825868ISBN:0847825868
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"Germaine Greer is hardly a stranger to controversy, but her 2003 book The Boy is outrageously provocative even by her standards. She describes it as an attempt to reclaim women's visual pleasure in the contemplation of male beauty, but it's the youth of the males in question that aroused the ire of the self-appointed guardians of public morality. Greer's subject is boys. Specifically boys in art, but it's also a celebration of boys in general. And she is contemptuous of those who like to imagine boys as sexless creatures.
In fact it's typical Greer - outrageous and thought-provoking, entertaining and confronting. And gorgeously illustrated. You might not agree with all her arguments, but I was surprised at just how often I did find myself agreeing with her. I was particularly interested in her contention that it was only in the 19th century that the female nude replaced the male nude as the ideal of beauty. If you don't mind being blasted out of your comfort zone occasionally I highly recommend this book."
"This book is the compliment to David's son Nic Sheff's "Tweak". Tweak is a phenomenal memoir of a young man (boy)deadly experience with Meth. Beautiful Boy is the same story told by Nic's father. The author was already a journalist of considerable standing when this painful story began to unfold,there are hard, solid facts about meth and the kinds of havoc it wreaks on individuals, families and communities both urban and rural. His journey is long and harrowing, but Sheff does not spare himself or anyone else from keen professional scrutiny any more than he was himself spared the pains-and joys-of watching a loved one struggling with addiction and recovery. Real recovery creates-and can itself be-its own reward; this is an honest, hopeful book, coming at a propitious moment in the meth epidemic. (Publishers Weekly)"
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