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

Author

Davis, Whitney.

Title

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

Format

Book

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.

Description

x, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Uniform series

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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.

Kinsey subjects

Art.
Men in art.
Homosexuality in art.

ISBN

9780231146906 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231146906 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231519557 (e-book)
0231519559 (e-book)