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Ilissos, from the Parthenon sculptures

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Description: Looking at Men: Anatomy, Masculinity and the Modern Male Body
Beginning with the history of the idea of the ‘human machine’, this chapter explores modern developments in this explicitly class- and gender-specific concept.My...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.140-183
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00297.5
Description: Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History
This chapter takes as its point of departure a puzzle—the apparently paradoxical gendering that occurs when Winckelmann exemplifies the sublime style by a female figure, the Niobe (Plate 15), and the beautiful style by a male one, the Laocoon (Plate 16). At one level he appears to be reversing conventional sexual paradigms. In the aesthetics of the period the sublime, with its intimations of power, elevation, or austerity, was usually associated with the masculine, and the beautiful, with its …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.113-144
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00050.007

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