Among McClure’s poetic experiments or conceptual poetry of the 1960s are a series of deck of cards, made on his own — LION FIGHT, DREAM TABLE, MAN & WOMAN, PERSONAL UNIVERSE DECK — or in collaboration with Bruce Conner — MANDALA DECK, CARDS, most of them printed by Dave Haselwood. These decks are fi...
In depicting scenes of youths in the company of a herm, the painters of Athenian sympotic pottery ostensibly portray a scene of daily life. Some, however, construct these scenes for viewing through an erotic lens, drawing on the fact that the two key iconographic elements of the stone herm, the bear...
In Roman antiquity, gladiator fights reproduce a managed crisis: the spectators transfer the violence that could oppose each other onto the gladiator, rejecting it out on the community and channelling it against its opponent. Once the fight has ended, the spectators are once again united in the cele...
Pirenne-Delforge Vinciane. William D. Furley, Andokides and the Herms. A Study of Crisis in Fifth-Century Athenian Religion. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 67, 1998. pp. 400-402.
