Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon
Sexuality and Form explores the insistence of the flesh as an element of carnality that resists exchange and conversion. Beginning with humanist aesthetics and the art of war, Hammill first discusses how the body gets aligned with various and subtle forms of violence. He then explores the epistemological and aesthetic spaces in the paintings of Caravaggio and Michaelangelo, the plays of Christopher Marlowe, and the scientific treatises of Francis Bacon, demonstrating how in each the flesh is...
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This ambitious, wide-ranging study of sexuality, aesthetics, and epistemology covers everything from the aesthetics of war to the works of Caravaggio, Michaelangelo, Christopher Marlowe, and Francis Bacon, synthesizing queer theory and psychoanalysis and demonstrating the role of the body and the flesh as both a problem and a promise within the narrative arts.
IllustrationsAcknowledgments1Introduction: History and the Time of Sexuality12Reading Bodies: Recognition and the Violence of Form243History and the Flesh: Caravaggio's Queer Aesthetic634"The Forme of Faustus Fortunes": Knowledge, Spectatorship, and the Body in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus975Sexuality at the Epochal Threshold: Baconian Science and the Experience of History1286Conclusion: Thinking Sexualities and Beyond169Notes179Index215
