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Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond / Whitney Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Whitney.
- Series:
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Sex.
- Homosexuality.
- Physical Description:
- x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231146906
- 0231146906
- 9780231519557
- 0231519559
- OCLC:
- 499741196
- Publisher Number:
- 99939847614
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