Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond
- Author
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Davis, Whitney.
- Title
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Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond / Whitney Davis.
- Format
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Book
- Published
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New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
- Description
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x, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Uniform series
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 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
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Art.
Men in art.
Homosexuality in art.
- ISBN
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9780231146906 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231146906 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231519557 (e-book)
0231519559 (e-book)