The "Hottentot Venus," sexuality, and the changing aesthetics of race, 1650-1850. From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Hudson, Nicholas | COPYRIGHT 2008 University of Manitoba, Mosaic. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This essay examines the joint emergence of the sciences of "race" and "aesthetics," particularly as mediated through the goddess Venus in European thought and art. A "double natured" goddess embodying both ideal beauty and carnal desire, Venus shows how the creation of these interdependent sciences resolved internal conflicts in Eurocentricism and male sexuality.

As now widely recognized in modern scholarship, changing conceptions of race, beauty, and sexuality during the eighte...

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