Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly
Other Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting. From Jean de Berry to the internet addict, from Christina of Sweden to Andy Warhol, this collection of essays sets about questioning the terms and methodologies of gay or queer historical studies and the very nature and definition of collecting. Richly illustrated,...
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Other Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting. From Jean de Berry to the internet addict, from Christina of Sweden to Andy Warhol, this collection of essays sets about questioning the terms and methodologies of gay or queer historical studies and the very nature and definition of collecting. Richly illustrated, scholarly and bold, this anthology respresents the work of both young and established Art Historians in trenchant, original and groundbreaking style.
1Editor's Introduction12'For Our Devotion and Pleasure': The sexual objects of Jean, Duc de Berry73Desiring Things334The Virtue of a King and the Desire of a Woman? Mythological representations in the collection of Queen Christina515Absent Love in Pleasure Houses. Frederick II of Prussia as art collector and patron696Homoerotic Art Collection from 1750 to 1920857Shopping the Leftovers: Warhol's collecting strategies in Raid the Icebox I1168Mapplethorpe's Living Room: Photography and the furnishing of desire1309Collecting men, or my next duchess150Index156
