Queer beauty sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond / Whitney Davis.
| Author/creator | Davis, Whitney |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, |
| Description | x, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. ^A699779 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010000456 |
| ISBN | 9780231146906 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231146906 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780231519557 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0231519559 (e-book) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |