A Touch of Blossom considers John Singer Sargent in the context
of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual
culture and argues that the artist mobilized ideas of
cross-fertilization and the hermaphroditic sexuality of flowers in
his work to "naturalize" sexual inversion. In conceiving of his
painting as an act of hand-pollination, Sargent was elaborating
both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of
subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic
modernism.
Assembling evidence from diverse realms--visual culture
(cartoons, greeting cards, costume design), medicine and botany
(treatises and their illustrations), literature, letters,
lexicography, and the visual arts--this book situates the metaphors
that structure Sargent's paintings in a broad cultural context. It
offers in-depth readings of particular paintings and analyzes
related projects undertaken by Sargent's friends in the field of
painting and in other disciplines, such as gynecology and
literature.
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