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.
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