Speaking for vice : homosexuality in the art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the first American avant-garde /
This book explores the representation of male homosexuality in American art in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the work of Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, it uncovers the sexual codes and references in their art and explores how the two men reconciled their production of a s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1993]
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| Series: | Yale publications in the history of art.
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| Summary: | This book explores the representation of male homosexuality in American art in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the work of Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, it uncovers the sexual codes and references in their art and explores how the two men reconciled their production of a self-consciously 'American' art with the representation of their own marginalized status as both homosexuals and avant-garde artists. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | xx, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0300053614 9780300053616 0300062540 9780300062540 |