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

1. Verfasser: Davis, Whitney , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010
Umfang/Format: x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Schlagworte:
Sex
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.