| Description |
1 online resource (197 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: queer difficulty, difficult queers; 1 Bohemians of the vegetable world; 2 The consequences of dating Don Leon; 3 The Song of Songs for difficult queers: Simeon Solomon, Neil Bartlett, and A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep; 4 Ingres's line; 5 "I am a photographer, not a lesbian": Berenice Abbott's visibility; 6 Naked politics: the art of Eros 1955-1975; 7 The Blatant Image, lesbian identity, and visual pleasure; 8 For/against homoeroticism: posing difficulty for the habitual decoders of desire |
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9 Ladies Almanack showing their Satire and Irony Sorrow and Sentimentality; Ridiculousness in relation to Sexual Identity; as well as reflections on Alison Bechdel's Fun Home-or, Notes not on "Camp"; 10 Now and (n)ever: Robert Gober's beeswax time machines; 11 Hip openers: on the visuals of gendering athleticism; 12 The perils and pleasures of drinking in Will Self and Herman Melville; Index |
| Summary |
Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in the scholarship on queer visual studies. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and even affects of phobia in artworks and texts, the authors in this volume propose new and surprising ways of understanding the difficulty - even failure - of the epistemology of the closet. Moreover, treating 'queer' not as an identity but as an activity, this book represents a divergence from previous approaches associated with Lesbian and Gay Studies. Responding to the expansion in scholarship in experiences and understandings of sexual identities and their relationship to art, the authors in this anthology refute the interpretive ease of binaries such as 'out' versus 'closeted' and 'gay' versus 'straight', and apply a more opaque relationship of identity to pleasure. Accepting difficulty and opacity as forms of queer pleasure, this book explores the potential of queer theory in modern and contemporary art and visual culture. The essays range in focus from photography, painting and film to poetry, Biblical text, lesbian humor, and even botany. Evaluating the most recent critical theories and introducing them in close examinations of objects and texts, this is the first book to take up the study of queer visual culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homosexuality and art.
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Homosexuality and art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reed, Christopher
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| ISBN |
9781315469799 |
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1315469790 |
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