Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond by Whitney Davis

Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond

Whitney Davis

368 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

art philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 poss...

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