Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures

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Author: Peter Horne

ISBN-10: 0415124689

ISBN-13: 9780415124683

Category: General & Miscellaneous Art

Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles such burning 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...

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Outlooks reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual culturewhile tackling such issues as the advantages 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. Providing a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality, Outlooks It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbians 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. Richly illustrated, Outlooks includes statements by contemporary lesbian and gay artists, photographers and performers as well as articles by art historians, cultural theorists and lesbian and gay activists. Contributors include Emmanuel Cooper, Richard Dellamora, Richard Kaye, Thais Morgan, Wendy Leeks, Reina Lewis, Katrina Rolley, Simon Watney.

List of figuresNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Re-framed - inscribing lesbian, gay and queer presences in visual culture1Ch. 1Queer spectacles13Ch. 2Absent bodies/absent subjects: the political unconscious of postmodernism28Ch. 3Out of the maid's room: Dora, Stratonice and the lesbian analyst48Ch. 4Perverse male bodies: Simeon Solomon and Algernon Charles Swinburne61Ch. 5Losing his religion: Saint Sebastian as contemporary gay martyr86Ch. 6Dyke! Fag! Centurion! Whore! An appreciation of Tessa Boffin109Ch. 7The art of accompaniment113Ch. 8Lesbian artist?120Ch. 9Negotiating genres126Ch. 10Rough trade: notes towards sharing mascara132Ch. 11The aura of timelessness139Ch. 12Promoting a sexuality: law and lesbian and gay visual culture in America147Ch. 13These waves of dying friends: gay men, AIDS, and multiple loss159Ch. 14Culture wars: race and queer art170Ch. 15Ad(dressing) the dyke: lesbian looks and lesbians looking178Index191