Pure beauty. The aesthetics of everyday life as a strategy of resistance to the male homosexual

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  • Carlos Magno Camargos Mendonça Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7549

Keywords:

Body, homosexuality, image

Abstract

This article aims to explore how the aesthetics of everyday life served to the resistance strategies of gay men facing the regulatory practices of power over their bodies and their image. We take the principle that these subjects have created products imagistic in order to design a lifestyle based on aesthetic pleasure. Our analytical operation focuses on some expressive materials that served as the disclosure of their language. We believe that this language was strengthened by the use of the body and gestures, the communication made by machine and the movement of words and images, suitable to the arts and literature. We demand a significant dimension of the communication process to describe the modes of interaction between these subjects.

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Author Biography

Carlos Magno Camargos Mendonça, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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Mendonça, C. M. C. (2010). Pure beauty. The aesthetics of everyday life as a strategy of resistance to the male homosexual. Revista FAMECOS, 17(2), 118–127. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7549

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2010)

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Image and Representation

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