Sexuality and form : Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon / Graham L. Hammill
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #433420
ISBN: 0226315185
Physical description; x, 219 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. Subjects; 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. Bacon, Francis. Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da. Marlowe, Christopher. 1500-1699. 16th-17th centuries. Homosexuality and art. Homosexuality history. Sex history. Art history. Literature history. Intellectual life. Psychology. Sex in art. Sex in literature. Sex.
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