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Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond /

The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. After Winckelmann, however, sometimes the value (even the possibility) of queer beauty in art was de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Whitney
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond
  • Queer beauty : Winckelmann and Kant on the vicissitudes of the ideal
  • The universal phallus : Hamilton, Knight, and the Wax phalli of Isernia
  • Representative representation : Schopenhauer's ontology of art
  • Double mind : Hegel, Symonds, and homoerotic spirit in renaissance art
  • The line of death : decadence and the organic metaphor
  • The sense of beauty : homosexuality and sexual selection in Victorian aesthetics
  • The aesthetogenesis of sex : "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, I
  • Love all the same : "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, II
  • The unbecoming : Michel Foucault and the laboratories of sexuality
  • Fantasmatic iconicity : Freudianism, formalism, and Richard Wollheim.