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Art and Homosexuality
Christopher Reed
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Description for Art and Homosexuality
Hardcover. A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated exploration of the relationship between art and homosexuality. This is the first book of its kind, a provocative, globe-spanning narrative history that considers the fascinating reciprocity between gay sexuality and art from the ancient world to today. Num Pages: 304 pages, 178 b/w & color illus. BIC Classification: AB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 185 x 24. Weight in Grams: 942.
Lavishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary America, Christopher Reed's arresting book reveals the deep linkages between art and homosexuality as we understand those terms. This is the first book to fully explore the interdependence between the identity of the artist and the homosexual. It offers a bold, globe-spanning narrative that draws on artwork from all the important periods in the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary, with special focus on the modern period. ... Read more
Lavishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary America, Christopher Reed's arresting book reveals the deep linkages between art and homosexuality as we understand those terms. This is the first book to fully explore the interdependence between the identity of the artist and the homosexual. It offers a bold, globe-spanning narrative that draws on artwork from all the important periods in the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary, with special focus on the modern period. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
940g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195399073
SKU
V9780195399073
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About Christopher Reed
Christopher Reed is Associate Professor of English and Visual Culture at Pennsylvania State University. His previous books include Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture and Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity, winner of a 2005 Historians of British Art prize.
Reviews for Art and Homosexuality
It's not the first book on the subject, but 'Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas' is certainly among the best.
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