Before Pornography: Sexual Representation in Ancient Roman Visual Culture
Before Pornography: Sexual Representation in Ancient Roman Visual Culture
复制标题
色情之前：古罗马视觉文化中的性表征
DOI：
10.1057/9781137367938_8
复制
发表时间：
2013
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
J. Clarke
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
J. Clarke
对性活动的古代视觉表现的研究揭示了“肖像画”一词的现代性。色情不仅是一个现代词汇，它的起源还在于现代的收集实践，这些实践将古代的色情物品与它们的背景隔离开来，使它们变得毫无意义。从文艺复兴时期开始，富有的收藏家收集了希腊和罗马的雕塑，花瓶画，马赛克，陶瓷，小青铜器和宝石与性代表，称之为“色情”。赫库兰尼姆（1738年）和庞贝（1748年）的发现带来了这类物体的爆炸性增长。古文物学家研究和收集它们，试图根据古代文献（例如Barre 1839 - 40）或通过与当代阴茎崇拜的比较（Knight 1786）来解释它们。
The study of ancient visual representations of sexual activity reveals the modernity of the term ‘pornography’. Not only is pornography a modern word, its genesis lies in modern collecting practices that so isolated ancient erotic objects from their contexts as to render them meaningless. Beginning with the Renaissance, wealthy collectors assembled collections of Greek and Roman sculptures, vase paintings, mosaics, ceramics, small bronzes and gems with sexual representations, calling them ‘erotica’. The discovery of Herculaneum (1738) and Pompeii (1748) brought about an explosive proliferation of such objects. Antiquarians studied and collected them, attempting to explain them on the basis of ancient texts (e.g. Barre 1839–40) or by comparison with contemporary phallic cults (Knight 1786).