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Queer British Art:1867-1967 - 1867-1967 (Paperback)
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Queer British Art:1867-1967 - 1867-1967 (Paperback)
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In 1967, sex between consenting men in England and Wales was
finally decriminalised - an entire century after the death penalty
was abolished for sodomy in Britain in 1861. Between these legal
landmarks lies a century of seismic shifts in gender and sexuality
which found expression across the arts as artists, collectors and
consumers explored transgressive identities, experiences and
perspectives. Some of the resulting artworks were intensely
personal, celebrating lovers or expressing private desires. Others
addressed a wider public, helping to forge a sense of community at
a time when the modern categories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender were largely unrecognised. Ranging from the playful to
the political, the explicit to the domestic, these works reveal the
rich diversity of queer British art. This beautiful book explores
coded desires in aestheticism; the impact of the new science of
sexology; queer domesticities; eroticism in the artist's studio;
intersections of gender and sexuality; seedy dives and visions of
Arcadia; and love and lust in sixties Soho. Featuring works by
major artists such as Simeon Solomon, Clare Atwood, Ethel Sands,
Duncan Grant, Francis Bacon and David Hockney among others, Queer
British Art pays homage to the wealth of queer creativity in
Britain between the 1860s and the 1960s.
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