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Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Whitney Davis
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Description for Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 5S; ACX; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 638.
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In turn, sexual desire and aesthetic pleasure had to be profoundly rethought by later writers. Whitney Davis follows how such innovative thinkers as John Addington Symonds, Michel Foucault, and Richard Wollheim rejoined these two domains, reclaiming earlier insights ... Read more
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In turn, sexual desire and aesthetic pleasure had to be profoundly rethought by later writers. Whitney Davis follows how such innovative thinkers as John Addington Symonds, Michel Foucault, and Richard Wollheim rejoined these two domains, reclaiming earlier insights ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Condition
New
Weight
640g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231146906
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V9780231146906
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About Whitney Davis
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.
Reviews for Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
... A difficult but thrilling book to read.
Kevin Ohi, Boston College Victorian Studies
Kevin Ohi, Boston College Victorian Studies