Sexuality and Form
Subtitle: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780226315188
Subjects: Aesthetics; Epistemology, theory of knowledge; European history: c 1500 to c 1750; Gay & Lesbian studies; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Psychology Of Homosexuality; Special Subjects In Art; Art; Gender Studies; Europe; History - Renaissance; Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies; Fine Arts; Human Sexuality; 1564-1593; 1573-1610; Caravaggio, Michelangelo Meris; Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da,; Homosexuality and art; Marlowe, Christopher,; Psychology
Description: "Sexuality and Form explores the insistence of the flesh as an element of carnality that resists exchange and conversion. Beginning with humanist aesthetics and the art of war, Hammill first discusses how the body gets aligned with various and subtle forms of violence.

He then explores the epistemological and aesthetic spaces in the paintings of Caravaggio and Michaelangelo, the plays of Christopher Marlowe, and the scientific treatises of Francis Bacon, demonstrating how in each the flesh is bruised into visibility through poses that underwrite and belie ideals of secular civility.".

"Sexuality and Form is an ambitious new study of sexuality, aesthetics, and epistemology - one of the first works of its kind to bring queer theory and psychoanalysis together within a Renaissance framework."--BOOK JACKET.