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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Funke, Jana, 1982- editor.

Grove, Jen, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Genders and sexualities in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture, European--Themes, motives.

Sculpture, European.

Sex in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Contents:

Intro; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Praise for Sculpture, Sexuality and History; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction-Desiring Sculptures, Encountering the Past: Sculpture, Sexuality and History; Introduction; Desire for the Living Statue and Desire for the Past; Sculptural Decency: Reception, Censorship and Liberation; Queer Possibilities of Statuary; Conclusion; Part I The Desire for the Living Statue and the Desire for the Past

Chapter 2 Antiquarian Pygmalions: The Female Body, Ancient Statuary, and the Idea of Imaginary Transport in the Eighteenth CenturyImaginary Transport, Desire, and the Living Statue; William Hamilton and the Women of Isernia; Charlotte Lennox's Female Quixote; Chapter 3 Longing for the Past: Eichendorff's Marmorbild, Historical Experience, and the Sexuality of the Masterpieces Room; Introduction; Sex and History in Das Marmorbild; Living Statues, Italy, and the Past; Disciplined Museum or "Vast Tomb": Historical Approaches and the Masterpieces Room; Conclusion

Chapter 4 Women, or Wax? Eros, Thanatos, and Sculpture in CinemaSculpting Women; Art, Science, and Horror; The Murder of Galatea; The Way of All Flesh; Part II Sculptural Decency: Reception, Censorship and Liberation; Chapter 5 The Indecent Body of Sculpture: Theodor Storm's Realist Psyche; Chapter 6 A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size: Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill as Fetish Object; Chapter 7 Ethics and Erotics: Receptions of an Ancient Statue of a Nymph and Satyr; Introduction; The Sculpture in Its Ancient Context; Rediscovery and Reception in Charles Townley's Collection

In and Out of View at the British MuseumRecent Exhibitions and the Ethics of Display; Conclusion; Part III Queer Possibilities of Statuary; Chapter 8 "Firm Outlines and Hard Muscles Immortalised": Ancient Statuary and E.P. Warren's "Uranian Ideal"; Age- and Class-Structured Relationships; Masculine Aesthetics; Platonic Love and Sexual Relationships Between Men and Boys; Anti-feminism; Conclusion; Chapter 9 Encountering the Niobe's Children: Vernon Lee's Queer Formalism and the Empathy of Sculpture; Introduction: The Aesthetics of the Past; The Queer Child of Sculpture; Miming Statues

The Plasticity of EmpathyChapter 10 The Queer Materiality of History: H.D., Freud and the Bronze Athena; Introduction; White Marble and Transcendence; The Missing Spear: Bronze and the Losses of History; Anachronistic Survivals: The Bisexual Oracle and the Old Man of the Sea; The Value of Bronze and the Queer Touch of the Past; Conclusion; Chapter 11 "Britain's Most Romantic Museum"?: Lesbian Spectatorship and the Reception of Historic Figural Sculpture at the V Gallery 21 and Sculptures of Female Couples by Rodin; Women, Museums, and Sculpture in the Late Nineteenth Century

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Sculpture, sexuality and history.

ISBN:

9783319958408

3319958402

Publisher Number:

99992949550

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.