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

New York : Columbia University Press, [2010], ©2010.

x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.