Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas

by Christopher Reed

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195399072
• ISBN13: 9780195399073
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 10.3"