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18 produkter
Queer Beauty
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Inbunden, 2010
1238 kr
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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 possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. …
Queer Beauty
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
E-bok, 2010
990 kr
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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 possibility) of art''s queer beauty was often denied. …
Drawing the Dream of the Wolves
Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud's "Wolf Man"
Häftad, 1996
199 kr
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". . . a valuable scholarly addition to any student of Freud or as research material in a library." —HNet, H-CAACADavis argues that the visual dimension of Freud's writing is crucial to understanding its structure and significance. He offers a new and challenging reading of Freud's case study of …
Masking the Blow
The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art
E-bok, 1992
446 kr
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This title was originally published in 1992. This title was originally published in 1992.
Visuality and Virtuality
Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective
Inbunden, 2017
644 kr
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A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of …
General Theory of Visual Culture
Häftad, 2017
494 kr
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What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory …
Visuality and Virtuality
Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective
E-bok, 2022
881 kr
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A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture , in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of …
Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History
E-bok, 2013
874 kr
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Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay …
Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History
E-bok, 2013
874 kr
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Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay …
Visions of Art History
Inbunden, 2027
2399 kr
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Whitney Davis reconsiders the work of major art historians and writers on the arts, from the early nineteenth century to the present day, including G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Ernst Cassirer, through to E. H. Gombrich, John Onians and David Summers, in order to show that vision has been shaped …
General Theory of Visual Culture
E-bok, 2022
661 kr
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What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory …
Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History
Häftad, 1994
740 kr
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Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay …
Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History
Inbunden, 1994
2578 kr
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Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay …
Beauty in My Brokenness
E-bok, 2020
180 kr
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Life can be unpredictable, and no matter how much you try preparing, there are some events that will still take you by surprise. There are some things that you will never see coming such as abuse, betrayal of trust, and major loss of material things. No matter how much you may think you have things …
Pacing the World
Construction in the Sculpture of David Rabinowitch
Häftad, 1997
341 kr
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This profusely illustrated book is the first full-length study of the Canadian-born sculptor David Rabinowitch. Working in New York since 1972 and extensively in Europe since the early 1980s, Rabinowitch became Professor of Sculpture at the Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, in 1984. Whitney …
Pacing the World
Construction in the Sculpture of David Rabinowitch
Inbunden, 1997
477 kr
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This profusely illustrated book is the first full-length study of the Canadian-born sculptor David Rabinowitch. Working in New York since 1972 and extensively in Europe since the early 1980s, Rabinowitch became Professor of Sculpture at the Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, in 1984. Whitney …
