Queer British art, 1861-1967
By: edited by Clare Barlow
Contributors: Tate Britain (Gallery)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781849764520
Subjects: Homosexuality and art; Exhibitions; Homosexuality in art; British Art; Gay artists; History
Description: This publication focuses exclusively on British queer art. It features sections on ambivalent sexualities and gender experimentation amongst the Pre-Raphaelites; the new science of sexology's impact on portraiture; queer domesticities in Bloomsbury and beyond; eroticism in the artist's studio and relationships between artists and models; gender play and sexuality in British surrealism; and love and lust in sixties Soho. It features works by major artists such as Simeon Solomon, John Singer Sargent, Clare Atwood, Ethel Sands, Duncan Grant, John Minton, Angus McBean, David Hockney and Francis Bacon, alongside less well-known material, such as ephemera, personal photographs, film and magazines.
Notes: "On the occasion of the exhibition Queer British art, 1861-1967, Tate Britain, London, 5 April-1 October 2017"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coded desires / by Colin Cruise; title: Public indecency : portrait of an x / by Laura Doan; title: Theatrical types / by Neil Bartlett; title: Bloomsbury and beyond / by Eleanor Jones; title: Defying convention / by Caroline Gonda; title: Arcadia and Soho / by Andrew Stephenson; title: Public lives, private passions / by Dominic Janes; title: Beautiful bodies / by Catherine Howe.