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A distinctly queer presence permeates the history of the visual arts--from Michelangelo's David and homoerotic images on ancient Greek vases to Frida Kahlo's self-portraits and the photography of Claude Cahun and Robert Mapplethorpe. Sebastian an icon of gay male artists. The perfect browser's guide to queer art--and the ideal reference work-- The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts answers these questions and more in detailed, readable essays that will keep you turning pages long after you've found the answer you were looking for. What's the connection between Buddhist monasteries and Japanese homoerotic imagery.
Everything you wanted to know about GLBT art and didn't know where to look - I read this more as a vastly interesting learning guide about people and subjects I knew little about. From the editors of glbtq.com, The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts showcases the enormous contribution of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer artists to painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and architecture. An easy-to-use, fascinating, and culturally inclusive volume with in-depth critical analyses of major figures, and bibliographies to guide further study. The internet is super if you know what you are looking for, this book tells you what to look for and why.
And are all those European bathing scenes as deliciously homoerotic as they seem. I read it as a fun history book and am very pleased.The book would benefit by containing more illustrations of the artist's art, this is compensated by the bibliographies that accompany the artist profile.From the back of the book - The first comprehensive, authoritative queer guide to the visual arts Why is St. Is there such a thing as a gay or lesbian sensibility.
The surveys of American and European Art are especially valuable, as is the series of "Subjects of the Visual Art." Equally important are the essays on topics such as censorship and AIDS activism in the arts and biographical entries on glbtq artists, from major figures of the past like Michaelangelo, Leonardo, El Greco, etc. The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts is a great resource. This volume and its companion The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater highlight the great contributions glbtq people have made to world culture. to contemporary artists such as Keith Haring, David Hockney, Janet Cooling, Tee Corinne, and many others. It is packed with all kinds of information. It is wonderful to browse, and is written to be very accessible to a wide audience, but it is also very solid.
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