Judgment of Paris

Name: Judgment of Paris
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ISBN: 9780226135120

ISBN-10: 0226135128

ISBN-13: 9780226135120

Edition: 1996

Authors: Hubert Damisch, John Goodman

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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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.89" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



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Translator's Note



Beaute mon beau souci



This Nothing That Psychoanalysis Has Had to Say about Beauty



The Future of an Emotion



Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure



Cherchez la femme: Beauty in Relations between the Sexes



Judgment of Paris



A Woman, Then: Le Dejeuner sur Pherbe



Raphael Invenit: The Masterpiece as Interlude



The Story without the Picture: The Myth-Work



The Theme of Choosing



"Remember Paris": The Genealogy of Europe



The Supplement: Painting, Body and Soul



Turns, Returns, and Dodges



Paris Judged: The Reserve Side of the Picture


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