Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexualty in the Visiual Arts
An art history that traces the representation of homosexuality across visual art from antiquity to the present. It surveys images from around the world on a broad scale.
Work Information
It surveys the wide horizon of homosexual representation from the Stone Age to after Stonewall.
A Lambda Literary Award-winning work that uses images from antiquity to the present to tell the large-scale history of homosexual expression and prejudice.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Published
- 1999-10-01
- Pages
- 416 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 19.05 x 3.35 x 23.9 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780670859535
- ISBN-10
- 0670859532
- Price
- 5500 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Gay & Lesbian
Covering the history of homosexuality in art, this comprehensive chronicle of gay and lesbian visual expression covers the field, from the sexual practices of prehistoric people, to satirical Medieval art, to the emergence of modern-day gay institutions. 12,500 first printing. Tour.
James M. Saslow , a graduate of Princeton and Columbia universities, for many years New York Arts Editor for The Advocate , is a professor in the Department of Art at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society . He lives in New York City.
Reviews
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Five Stars
Excellent t
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Very Entertaining and informative
I bought this primarily for the historical aspect and also as it was recommended by the artist Tee Corinne in her book `Intimacies'. From the book description - This history of homoerotic art spans three millennia and explores traditions in Western, Middle-Eastern, and Asian cultures. In addition to celebrating glorious paintings and photographs, art professor Saslow illustrates the ways in which degrading images of gay men and lesbians have been used to infiltrate societies with negative assumptions of homosexuality. A groundbreaking work of nuanced scholarship encompassing all genres in all ages on gay themes. 145 illustrations, 32 in color. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: From Stone Age to Stonewall 1 Ch. 1 The Classical World: Greece and Rome 13 Ch. 2 The Middle Ages: Dogma Versus Desire 55 Ch. 3 From Renaissance to Reform: Europe and the Globe, 1400-1700 79 Ch. 4 Asia and Islam: Ancient Cultures, Modern Conflicts 125 Ch. 5 From Winckelmann to Wilde: The Birth of Modernity, 1700-1900 151 Ch. 6 Modernism, Multiplicity, and the Movement: 1900-1969 207 Ch. 7 Post-Stonewall, Post-Modern 259 Further Reading 311 Illustration Credits 319 Index 327
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A good complement to my collection of books about art and ...
A good complement to my collection of books about art and homosexuality, great time lapse and good illustrations (most in B/W).
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Not worth your time
Some pictures but many are taken out of context and are not what the author believes them to be. There are many better examples that could prove the authors ideas but perhaps they were not publishable. Very disappointing purchase but cheap so it makes sense now.
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Gay Artistic History of the Gay World through Time
Learned much from this book. Any gay scholar no matter what section of scholarship the person needs this for his book collection, I feel very luck to buy it. I thank Amazon for caring a tremendous amount of subject matter that no small book shop could incude.