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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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
Table of 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.