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Sexuality and form : Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon

Title
Sexuality and form : Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon / Graham L. Hammill.
Author
Hammill, Graham L.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2000.

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Description
x, 219 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
"Sexuality and Form explores the insistence of the flesh as an element of carnality that resists exchange and conversion. Beginning with humanist aesthetics and the art of war, Hammill first discusses how the body gets aligned with various and subtle forms of violence. He then explores the epistemological and aesthetic spaces in the paintings of Caravaggio and Michaelangelo, the plays of Christopher Marlowe, and the scientific treatises of Francis Bacon, demonstrating how in each the flesh is bruised into visibility through poses that underwrite and belie ideals of secular civility." "Sexuality and Form is an ambitious new study of sexuality, aesthetics, and epistemology - one of the first works of its kind to bring queer theory and psychoanalysis together within a Renaissance framework."--Jacket.
Subject
  • Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610 > Psychology
  • Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 > Psychology
  • Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 > Psychology
  • Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
  • Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610
  • Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
  • Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610
  • Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
  • Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626
  • Bacon, Francis
  • Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da
  • Marlowe, Christopher
  • Da
  • 1500-1699
  • Homosexuality and art
  • Homosexuality > history
  • Sex > history
  • Art > history
  • Literature > history
  • Homosexuality and art
  • Intellectual life
  • Psychology
  • Erotik Motiv
  • Ästhetik
  • Lichamelijkheid
  • Homoseksualiteit
  • Beeldende kunsten
  • Geschiedwetenschap
  • LGBTQ+ arts
  • Thème artistique
  • Sexualité
  • Homosexualité
  • Europe > Intellectual life > 16th century
  • Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century
  • Europe
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-214) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction: History and the Time of Sexuality -- 2. Reading Bodies: Recognition and the Violence of Form -- 3. History and the Flesh: Caravaggio's Queer Aesthetic -- 4. "The Forme of Faustus Fortunes": Knowledge, Spectatorship, and the Body in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- 5. Sexuality at the Epochal Threshold: Baconian Science and the Experience of History -- 6. Conclusion: Thinking Sexualities and Beyond.
ISBN
  • 0226315185
  • 9780226315188
  • 0226315193
  • 9780226315195
LCCN
00008740
OCLC
  • ocm43751555
  • 43751555
  • SCSB-1148740
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library