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Art and homosexuality : a history of ideas /

"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 m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, Christopher, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Art and homosexuality : an overview
  • Varieties of "homosexuality," varieties of "art". Initiatory homosexuality : the "Sambia" of New Guinea and the ancient Greeks and Romans ; Gender-transcendent homosexuality : Polynesia and North America ; Performative homosexuality : Tokugawa, Japan
  • Before modernism. Early Christian and medieval Europe ; The Renaissance ; Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe
  • Inventing the modern : art and sexual identity in the late nineteenth century. Imagery at mid-century ; Inventing the "avant-garde" ; Artists at mid-century ; The modern artist as homosexual ; Aesthetes and art journals
  • Secrets and subcultures, 1900-1940. Echoes of aestheticism ; Avant-garde contingents ; Sexuality and race ; Strategies of coding : abstraction and symbols ; The limits of the avant-garde ; The avant-garde and the open secret ; The open secret and mass culture
  • The short triumph of the modern, 1940-65. Expression and repression in postwar art ; Popular imagery, Pop Art, and the origins of postmodernism ; Camp and criticism
  • The avant-garde and activism, 1965-82. Art and politics ; Feminists, lesbians, and female sensibility ; Identity and sensibility
  • The AIDS decade, 1982-92. AIDS and the avant-garde ; AIDS, activism, and visual culture ; Homophobia and visual culture
  • Queer and beyond. Queer ; Fragmentation from within ; Pressure from without ; Working through difference : the Black male nude.