Queer beauty
Subtitle: sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond
By: Whitney Davis.
Series: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231146906; 9780231519557
Subjects: Aesthetics; Sex; Homosexuality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond; title: Queer beauty: Winckelmann and Kant on the vicissitudes of the ideal; title: The universal phallus: Hamilton, Knight, and the Wax phalli of Isernia; title: Representative representation: Schopenhauer's ontology of art; title: Double mind: Hegel, Symonds, and homoerotic spirit in renaissance art; title: The line of death: decadence and the organic metaphor; title: The sense of beauty: homosexuality and sexual selection in Victorian aesthetics; title: The aesthetogenesis of sex: "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, i; title: Love all the same: "narcissism" in Freudian theory and homosexualist culture, ii; title: The unbecoming: Michel Foucault and the laboratories of sexuality; title: Fantasmatic iconicity: Freudianism, formalism, and Richard Wollheim.