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The Judgement of Paris (Analytic Iconology ; 1) (Paperback)
Short Description for The Judgement of ParisDrawing 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 01 June 1996
- Format: Paperback 396 pages
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- Categories: Art History | Paintings | Individual Artists, Art Monographs
- ISBN 13: 9780226135120 ISBN 10: 0226135128
- Sales rank: 683,852
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Full description for The Judgement of Paris
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.
