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The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939
$75.00
A groundbreaking, global survey ofΒ queer art, featuringΒ more than 300 artworks madeΒ following the introduction of the term βhomosexualβ inΒ 1869
An unprecedented and historic new book,Β The First HomosexualsΒ traces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive ofΒ more than 300Β paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and film stills from around the worldΒ βΒ many presented in a queer, global, and colonialΒ context for the first time. Accompanying the works are twenty-two original, insightful essays by leading experts in art and queer history, each focusing on one geographical regionΒ βΒ from Japan to Australia to the Indigenous populations ofΒ SouthΒ America.Β Ranging from well-known masterpieces to works by unknown artists and pieces rarely considered in the context of sexuality,Β The First HomosexualsΒ offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies aΒ groundbreaking exhibition of the same nameΒ presentedΒ at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.
Featured artists includeΒ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent,Β FΓ©lix Vallotton,Β Harriet Hosmer,Β Katsushika Hokusai,Β Kitagawa Utamaro,Β Frederic Leighton,Β Simeon Solomon,Β Giovanni Boldini,Β Jacques-Γmile Blanche,Β Berenice Abbott,Β Clare Atwood,Β Duncan Grant,Β Laura Rodig,Β Carl van Vechten,Β Beauford Delaney,Β Anna Klumpke,Β Sarah Bernhardt,Β Walter Sickert,Β Florence Carlyle,Β Florence WyleΒ ,Β Frances Loring,Β Ottilie Roederstein,Β Florine StettheimerΒ Nasta Rojc,Β Glyn Philpot,Β Romaine Brooks,Β Ismael Nery,Β Manuel RodrΓguez Lozano,Β Roberto Montenegro,Β MarΓa Izquierdo,Β Emilio Baz Viaud,Β Konstantin Somov,Β Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret,Β Alice Austen,Β Emilie Mundt,Β Bertha Wegmann,Β Thomas Anshutz,Β Marsden Hartley,Β Charles Demuth,Β Marie Laurencin,Β Gerda Wegener,Β Lili Elbe,Β Gregorio Prieto,Β Jorge Larco,Β Pavel Tchelitchew,Β Andrey Avinoff,Β Gustave Courtois,Β Carlos Baca-Flor,Β Gustave Moreau,Β Henry Scott Tuke,Β Sascha Schneider,Β Ludwig von Hofmann,Β Max Oppenheimer,Β EugΓ¨ne Jansson,Β Osmar Schindler,Β George Platt Lynes,Β Agnes Goodsir,Β Tamara de Lempicka,Β Pedro Lira,Β Wilhelm von Gloeden,Β Ladislav MednyΓ‘nszky,Β F. Holland Day,Β Kristian Zahrtmann,Β Violet Oakley,Β Rupert Bunny,Β Saturnino HerrΓ‘n,Β David Paynter,Β Lionel Wendt,Β Richmond BarthΓ©,Β Richard Bruce Nugent,Β Lady Una Troubridge,Β Jean Cocteau,Β LΓ©on Bakst,Β LumiΓ¨re Brothers,Β Marie HΓΆeg & Bolette Berg,Β JosΓ© Guadalupe Posada,Β Claude Cahun,Β Toyen,Β Toni Ebel, andΒ ElisΓ r von Kupffer (Elisarion).
DETAILS β’ Author: Jonathan D. Katz β’ Publisher: Monacelli Press β’ Format: Hardcover