Davis Queer Beauty

Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-51955-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Whitney

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
1. Queer Beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the Vicissitudes of the Ideal
2. The Universal Phallus: Hamilton, Knight, and the Wax Phalli of Isernia
3. Representative Representation: Schopenhauer's Ontology of Art
4. Double Mind: Hegel, Symonds, and Homoerotic Spirit in Renaissance Art
5. The Line of Death: Decadence and the Organic Metaphor
6. The Sense of Beauty: Homosexuality and Sexual Selection in Victorian Aesthetics
7. The Aesthetogenesis of Sex: "Narcissism" in Freudian Theory and Homosexualist Culture, I
8. Love All the Same: "Narcissism" in Freudian Theory and Homosexualist Culture, II
9. The Unbecoming: Michel Foucault and the Laboratories of Sexuality
10. Fantasmatic Iconicity: Freudianism, Formalism, and Richard Wollheim
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Whitney Davis is professor of history and theory of ancient and modern art at the University of California at Berkeley. Educated at Harvard University, he is the author of A General Theory of Visual Culture, along with five other books on prehistoric, ancient, and modern arts and art theory, as well as on the history and theory of sexuality.