Outlooks : Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415124676 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str.

Reina Lewis; Peter Horne

Opis

This exploration of the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures. At the same time it tackles such issues as the advantage of adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual art. This volume provides a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality. It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbian and gay men within visual cultures and shows how much has been missed by a heterosexist approach to art history and the study of culture.

Spis treści

Emmanuel Cooper on Francis Bacon. Richard Dellamora on Warhol and postmodernism. Sunil Gupta on race and queer ar. Richard Kaye on the gay icon of St Sebastian. Wendy Leeks on Ingres and the lesbian viewer. Reina Lewis and Katrina Rolley on lesbians and the fashion spread. Thais Morgan on lesbianism and nineteenth century aestheticism. Carl Stychin on the censorship of lesbian and gay art. Simon Watney on the visual poetics of mourning.

O autorze

Horne, Peter; Lewis, Reina