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The Judgment of Paris

The Judgment of Paris

Damisch, Hubert
Goodman, John

Paperback

Individual Artists

ISBN10: 0226135128
ISBN13: 9780226135120
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Jun 15 1996
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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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