The Evolution of Allure; Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk by Hersey, George L - 1996

MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 800 g; XVI, 222 pages, includes chapter notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated throughout with both colour and black-and-white photographs and reproductions of art work and diagrams. Colour illustrated dust jacket. The book has been protected since purchase, and shows no signs of damage. The author, a art historian, has for the first time brought together modern Darwinian theories of sexual selection (made competition, attractor manipulation, and the like) with art history. By channelling a general preference for normative proportions, he argues, arts has shaped Western society's sexual choices and reproductive goals while giving rise to normative body types that link physiological drives to aesthetic impulses. -- front fold over blurb Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Gender Studies; Sexuality; ISBN: 0262082446. ISBN/EAN: 9780262082440. Inventory No: 0226743. . 9780262082440