Art and homosexuality : a history of ideas / / Christopher Reed

• Autore: Reed Christopher <1961->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.86/64
• Soggetto topico: Homosexuality and the arts
• Classificazione: 20.10
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-280) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Varieties of "homosexuality," varieties of "art" -- Before modernism -- Inventing the modern: art and sexual identity in the late nineteenth century -- Secrets and subcultures, 1900-1940 -- The short triumph of the modern, 1940-65 -- The avant-garde and activism, 1965-82 -- The AIDS decade, 1982-92 -- Queer and beyond.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape, and almost as quickly to overlap. Not a chronology of gay or lesbian artists, the book is a fascinating a
• Titolo autorizzato: Art and homosexuality
• ISBN: 0-19-983044-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790758503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II