Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure. Damisch's tale begins with the judgment of Paris, in which Paris awards Venus the golden apple and thus forever links beauty with desire. The casting of this decision as a mistake—in which desire is rewarded over wisdom and strength—is then linked to theories of the unconscious and psychological drives. In his quest for an exposition of the beautiful in its relation to visual pleasure, Damisch employs what he terms “analytic iconology,” following the revisions and repetitions of the motif of the judgment through art history, philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. This translation brings an important figure of the French art historical tradition to Anglo-American audiences.
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Unlike the book of the same Homeric mythical title by Ross King, which is based is on the articles and scholarship of scholars who, unlike King ARE art historians, this book is a very well written (and translated from the French) work of original scholarship by an author who writes with his own impeccable authority
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Freud himself frankly avowed it: psychoanalysis has little or nothing to say about beauty-less, in any case, than about many other subjects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
les artistes modernes, poetic accompaniment, three rival goddesses, organic repression, scopic pleasure, dei dei, scopic drive, visual excitation, present location unknown, three goddesses, des musées nationaux, aesthetic emotion, three caskets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lemaire de Belges, Three Essays, Lucas Cranach, Fréart de Chambray, Marcantonio Raimondi, Middle Ages, Giulio Romano, Aby Warburg, Cyprian Lays, Farnese Gallery, Salon des Refusés, Christine de Pisan, Don Quixote, National Gallery, Pablo Picasso, Dares Phrygius, Annibale Carracci, Edgar Wind, Las Meninas, Marsilio Ficino, Mount Ida, Nicole Loraux, Peter Paul Rubens, The Dream of Scipio, Victorine Meurent New!
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Freud himself frankly avowed it: psychoanalysis has little or nothing to say about beauty-less, in any case, than about many other subjects. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
les artistes modernes, poetic accompaniment, three rival goddesses, organic repression, scopic pleasure, dei dei, scopic drive, visual excitation, present location unknown, three goddesses, des musées nationaux, aesthetic emotion, three caskets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lemaire de Belges, Three Essays, Lucas Cranach, Fréart de Chambray, Marcantonio Raimondi, Middle Ages, Giulio Romano, Aby Warburg, Cyprian Lays, Farnese Gallery, Salon des Refusés, Christine de Pisan, Don Quixote, National Gallery, Pablo Picasso, Dares Phrygius, Annibale Carracci, Edgar Wind, Las Meninas, Marsilio Ficino, Mount Ida, Nicole Loraux, Peter Paul Rubens, The Dream of Scipio, Victorine Meurent New!
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- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud on 21 pages
- The Creation of Mythology by Marcel Detienne on 5 pages
- Symbolic Images (Gombrich on the Renaissance)- Volume 2 by E.H. Gombrich on 4 pages
- On Painting (Penguin Classics) by Leon Battista Alberti on 4 pages
- The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics) by Apuleius on 4 pages
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- Largesse (The Parti Pris Series) by Jean Starobinski in Back Matter
- The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dream by Maria Ruvoldt in Back Matter
- Theories of Judgment: Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology (Modern European Philosophy) by Wayne Martin in Back Matter
- Largesse (Parti Pris (Reunion Des Musees Nationaux (France)).) by Jean Starobinski in Back Matter
- Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime (Aesthetics Today) by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe on page 11
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