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Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond /

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. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Whitney
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Subjects:
Aesthetics.
Sex.
Homosexuality.
Schoonheidsideaal.
Esthetica.
Homoseksualiteit.
Ästhetik.
Sexualität.
Homosexualität.
Philosophie.
Erotik.
Kunst.
Konstvetenskap > sexualitet > estetik.
Homosexualitet.
Queerteori.
Estetik.
Homosocialitet.
Homosexuality > history.
Sex > history.
Geschichte
Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis

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