Description: Further DetailsTitle: Queer BeautyCondition: NewEAN: 9780231146906ISBN: 9780231146906Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/26/2010Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Whitney DavisLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and BeyondISBN-10: 0231146906Description: 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 about the mutual implication of sexuality and aesthetics. Addressing texts by Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, and Sigmund Freud, among many others, Davis criticizes modern approaches, such as Kantian idealism, Darwinism, psychoanalysis, and analytic aesthetics, for either reducing aesthetics to a question of sexuality or for removing sexuality from the aesthetic field altogether.Despite these schematic reductions, sexuality always returns to aesthetics, and aesthetic considerations always recur in sexuality. Davis particularly emphasizes the way in which philosophies of art since the late eighteenth century have responded to nonstandard sexuality, especially homoeroticism, and how theories of nonstandard sexuality have drawn on aesthetics in significant ways. Many imaginative and penetrating critics have wrestled productively, though often inconclusively and "against themselves," with the aesthetic making of sexual life and new forms of art made from reconstituted sexualities. Through a critique that confronts history, philosophy, science, psychology, and dominant theories of art and sexuality, Davis challenges privileged types of sexual and aesthetic creation imagined in modern culture-and assumed today.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the ArtsGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Arts & Photography, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Queer Beauty
Title: Queer Beauty
EAN: 9780231146906
ISBN: 9780231146906
Release Date: 08/26/2010
Release Year: 2010
Subtitle: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
ISBN-10: 0231146906
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Queer Beauty : Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Lgbt Studies / General, Aesthetics, Lgbt, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), History / General
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Whitney Davis
Item Width: 0.7 in
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Ser.
Format: Hardcover
