Queer beauty : sexuality and aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and beyond /

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. After Winckelmann, however, sometimes the value (even the possibility) of queer beauty in art was de...

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Author / Creator: Davis, Whitney.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Subjects:
Sex
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