Title: A touch of blossom
Description: "Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Art and science, Criticism and interpretation, Arts and society, Sex in Plants, Plants in art, History, Sargent, john singer, 1856-1925, Art criticism, Sex (biology)
People: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Time periods: 19th century