Queer beauty sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond

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ISBN: 0231519559
ISBN: 9780231519557
ISBN: 0231146906
ISBN: 9780231146906
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.

General Note:	Multi-user. CatMonthString:october.15 Title from title page of source document.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.