Sculpture, sexuality and history : encounters in literature, culture and the arts from the eighteenth century to the present / Jana Funke, Jen Grove, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Funke, Jana, 1982- editor.

Grove, Jen, editor.

Series:

Genders and sexualities in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture, European--Themes, motives.

Sculpture, European.

Sex in art.

Sculpture, American--Themes, motives.

Sculpture, Modern--18th century.

Sculpture, Modern--19th century.

Sculpture, Modern--20th century.

Sculpture, Modern--21st century.

Physical Description:

xviii, 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

"This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects, sculptures also draw attention to the different ways in which knowledge about sexuality is facilitated through an engagement with the past. Bringing together contributors from across disciplines, including art history, classics, film studies, gender studies, history, literary studies, museum studies, queer theory and reception studies, the volume presents original readings of sculptural art in relation to antiquarianism, aesthetics, collecting cultures, censorship and obscenity, psychoanalysis, sexology, and the experience and regulation of museum spaces. It examines how sculptural encounters were imagined and articulated in literature, painting, film and science. As a whole, the book opens up a new understanding of the ways in which sculptures, as real or imagined objects, have fundamentally shaped approaches to, and receptions of, the past in relation to sex, gender and sexuality."--Publisher's description

Contents:

1. Introduction

Desiring Sculptures, Encountering the Past: Sculpture, Sexuality and History / Jana Funke and Jen Grove

Part I. The Desire for the Living Statue and the Desire for the Past : 2. Antiquarian Pygmalions: The Female Body, Ancient Statuary, and the Idea of Imaginary Transport in the Eighteenth Century / Katharina Boehm

3. Longing for the Past: Eichendorff's Marmorbild, Historical Experience, and the Sexuality of the Masterpieces Room / Elsje van Kessel

4. Women, or Wax? Eros, Thanatos, and Sculpture in Cinema / Vito Adriaensens

Part II. Sculptural Decency: Reception, Censorship and Liberation : 5. The Indecent Body of Sculpture: Theodore Storm's Realist Psyche / Catriona MacLeod

6. A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size: Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill as Fetish Object / Bernard Vere

7. Ethics and Erotics: Receptions of an Ancient Statue of a Nymph and Satyr / Victoria Donnellan

Part III. Queer Possibilities of Statuary : 8. "Firm Outlines and Hard Muscles Immortalised": Ancient Statuary and E.P. Warren's "Uranian Ideal" / Jen Grove

9. Encountering the Niobe's Children: Vernon Lee's Queer Formalism and the Empathy of Sculpture / Francesco Ventrella

10. The Queer Materiality of History: H.D., Freud and the Bronze Athena / Jana Funke

11. "Britain's Most Romantic Museum"?: Lesbian Spectatorship and the Reception of Historic Figural Sculpture at the V & A / Amy Mechowski

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

9783319958392

3319958399

OCLC:

1079341418