Queer beauty sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond / Whitney Davis.

Author/creator Davis, Whitney
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press,
Descriptionx, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesColumbia 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010000456
ISBN9780231146906 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0231146906 (cloth : alk. paper)
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ISBN0231519559 (e-book)

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