Sukupuolen sotkijat
Subtitle: Queer-kuvastoa sadan vuoden takaa
By: Harri Kalha
Contributors: Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo
Publisher: Parvs
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: fin
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789527226414
Subjects: Gender identity in art; Exhibitions; Sexual minority community; Pictorial works; Gender nonconformity; History; Postcards
Other titles: Queer-kuvastoa sadan vuoden takaa
Description: This beguiling pictorial work focuses our gaze on the history of gender from a surprizing angle. Even if the visual culture of the start of the 20th century bolstered ideas of timeless womanhood and proper men, the postcards and photographs of the day also embraced some astonishing curiosities. Smooching male couples, lesbian kisses, boys posing in skirts - this volume gives the queer world its own pictorial Kalevala. A hundred years ago, gender was not just a straitjacket, but also a carnival of possibilities and a playground of impossibilities. The researcher Harri Kalha's insightful pictorial archaeology jubilantly brings a breath of fresh air to both gender norms and our conceptions of the world of the beginning of the last century. This cultural history is common to all of us - who among us is not touched by gender? Exhibition: HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Finland (01.11.2019-27.9.2020).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Helsinki Art Museum, November 1, 2019-September 27, 2020.