Touch of blossom, a: john singer sargent and the queer flora of fin-de-siècle art
Auteur :
Syme, Alison
Éditeur :
Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN :
9780271036229
Date de publication :
8 oct. 2010
Dimensions :
25,4 x 22,9 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
1615 g
Format :
Sewn
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.