Queer Beauty - Sexuality and Aesthetics From Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Whitney Davis is professor of history and theory of ancient and modern art at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of A General Theory of Visual Culture and five other books on prehistoric! ancient! and modern arts and art theory! as well as on the history and theory of sexuality. Klappentext 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 denied. Several theorists after Winckelmann! notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant! broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In turn! sexual desire and aesthetic pleasure conceived as discrete categories had to be profoundly rethought by later writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond1. Queer Beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the Vicissitudes of the Ideal2. The Universal Phallus: Hamilton! Knight! and the Wax Phalli of Isernia3. Representative Representation: Schopenhauer's Ontology of Art4. Double Mind: Hegel! Symonds! and Homoerotic Spirit in Renaissance Art5. The Line of Death: Decadence and the Organic Metaphor6. The Sense of Beauty: Homosexuality and Sexual Selection in Victorian Aesthetics7. The Aesthetogenesis of Sex: "Narcissism" in Freudian Theory and Homosexualist Culture! I8. Love All the Same: "Narcissism" in Freudian Theory and Homosexualist Culture! II9. The Unbecoming: Michel Foucault and the Laboratories of Sexuality10. Fantasmatic Iconicity: Freudianism! Formalism! and Richard WollheimNotesIndex

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• Authors: W Davis, Whitney Davis, Whitney (Professor Davis, Davis Whitney
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9780231146906
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14690-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Columbia University Press; Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts; Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; ART / History / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, Philosophy; aesthetics; lgbtq+; art