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Description Art and Homosexuality - A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed Oxford University Press | May 2011 | ISBN: 0195399072 | PDF | 304 Pages | 15 mb http://www.amazon.com/Art-Ho...ristopher-Reed/dp/0195399072 This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape, and almost as quickly to overlap. Not a chronology of gay or lesbian artists, the book is a fascinating and sophisticated account of the ways two conspicuous identities have fundamentally informed one another. Art and Homosexuality discusses many of modernism's canonical figures--painters like Courbet, Picasso, and Pollock; writers like Whitman and Stein--and issues, such as the rise of abstraction, the avant-garde's relationship to its patrons and the political exploitation of art. It shows that many of the core ideas that define modernism are nearly indecipherable without an understanding of the paired identities of artist and homosexual. Illustrated with over 175 b/w and color images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary America, Art and Homosexuality punctures the platitudes surrounding discussions of both aesthetics and sexual identity and takes our understanding of each in stimulating new directions. About the Author  I am interested in the intersections of visual culture (a fancy term for art and design) with issues of gender and sexuality. One of my books, Art and Homosexuality, deals with these ideas broadly. Others deal with more specific examples. My primary focus has been the art and environments created by and for members of the Bloomsbury group, but I am also interested in topics ranging from the uses of Japanese aesthetics in the "West" to contemporary queer art and design. CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Art and Homosexuality: An Overview 1 CHAPTER 1 - VARIETIES OF “HOMOSEXUALITY“, VARIETIES OF “ART” 11 CHAPTER 2 - BEFORE MODERNISM 3 7 CHAPTER 3 - INVENTING THE MODERN: ART AND SEXUAL IDENTITY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY 69 CHAPTER 4 - SECRETS AND SUBCULTURES, 1900–1940 105 CHAPTER 5 - THE SHORT TRIUMPH OF THE MODERN, 1940–65 149 CHAPTER 6 - THE AVANT-GARDE AND ACTIVISM, 1965–82 179 CHAPTER 7 - THE AIDS DECADE, 1982–92 207 CHAPTER 8 - QUEER AND BEYOND 229 Bibliography and Notes 257 Index 281 Sharing Widget |