Sculpture, Sexuality and History Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Funke, Jana (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Grove, Jen (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
• Subjects: Civilization-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Sociology.; History, Modern.; Fine arts.; Cultural History.; History of Modern Europe.; Gender Studies.; Modern History.; Fine Arts.

This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Sculpture, Sexuality and History; Jana Funke and Jen Grove
• PART I: The Desire for the Living Statue and the Desire for the Past
• 2. Antiquarian Pygmalions: The Female Body, Ancient Statuary and the Idea of Imaginary Transport in the Eighteenth Century; Katharina Boehm
• 3. Longing for the Past: Eichendorff's Marmorbild, Historical Experience, And the Sexuality Of The Masterpieces Room; Elsje van Kessel
• 4. Women, or Wax? Eros, Thanatos and Sculpture in Cinema; Vito Adriaensens
• PART II: Sculptural Decency: Reception, Censorship and Liberation
• 5. The Indecent Body of Sculpture: Theodor Storm's Realist Psyche; Catriona MacLeod
• 6. 'A Token of Triumph Cut Down to Size': Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill as Fetish Object; Bernard Vere
• 7. Ethics and Erotics: Receptions of an Ancient Statue of a Nymph and Satyr; Victoria Donnellan
• PART III: Queer Possibilities of Statuary
• 8. 'Firm Outlines and Hard Muscles Immortalised': Ancient Statuary and EP Warren's 'Uranian Ideal'; Jen Grove
• 9. Encountering the Niobe's Children: Vernon Lee's Queer Formalism, Empathy and the Ethics of Sculpture; Francesco Ventrella
• 10. The Queer Materiality of History: H.D., Freud and the Bronze Athena; Jana Funke
• 11. 'Britain's Most Romantic Museum' or a 'Temple of Lust'?: Statuary, Lesbian Spectatorship and the V&A; Amy Mechowski
• Index.