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The evolution of allure
The evolution of allure, The beauty of the human body has found a daring beholder in art historian George Hersey, who for the first time brings modern Darwinian theories of sexual selection (mate competition, attractor manipulation, and the like) into the history of art. <i>The E, The evolution of allure has a rating of 4 stars
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  • The evolution of allure
  • Written by author George L Hersey
  • Published by Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c1996., 1996/07/01
  • The beauty of the human body has found a daring beholder in art historian George Hersey, who for the first time brings modern Darwinian theories of sexual selection (mate competition, attractor manipulation, and the like) into the history of art. The E
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Aphrodite's Daughters
Sexual Selection 1
Augmentation 5
Borrowing, Translation, and Exchange 8
Sperm Competition 10
Clothes as Genital Maps 12
Incarnate Christs and Selectable Saints 21
The Incarnation 22
The Immaculate Conception 26
Magdalen and Teresa 32
Body Canons 41
Polykleitos, Praxiteles, and Vitruvius 44
Canons and Number: Alberti, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Durer, and Lomazzo 47
William Wetmore Story and the Seal of Solomon 56
Aryans and Semites 61
Aryanism 62
Aryan Art: Frederic Leighton 69
Semitic Art: The Etruscans, Cimabue, and Michelangelo 76
Two Afro-Aryan Heroines 80
More Body Prescribers 85
Selecting Scientifically: Lavater, Ammon, Virchow, and Kretschmer 86
Endomorphs, Mesomorphs, Ectomorphs, and W. H. Sheldon 90
Galton and Lombroso 101
Worse and Better Faces 102
Breeding Baroque Bodies: Guido Reni 106
The Monsters among Us 112
Women, Ornament, and Degeneration 116
Morelli and Lombrosan Connoisseurship 124
Max Nordau 129
More Degeneration 130
Erotomania: Verlaine and Rodin 133
Brain Decay: Whistler, Boldini, and J. W. Alexander 137
Into Nazism 147
Paul Schultze Naumburg: Rubens and Rembrandt 148
Jacob Epstein and Racial Treachery 154
The 120-Year Reich 157
Hyperdevelopment Today 165
Augmentation: Hercules and Batman 166
Exchange: Arnold, Diana of Ephesus, Kristy Ramsey, and Hannah Hoch 170
Dimorphism: The Incredible Hulk, His Friends, and the Sage Grouse 174
Notes 181
Selected Bibliography 199
Index 211


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