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Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918 - Royal Academicians and Masculinities (Paperback)
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Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918 - Royal Academicians and Masculinities (Paperback)
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An original and overdue exploration of the representation of
masculinity in British academic art in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918
analyzes transgressions of gender and sexuality as represented in
paintings by Leighton, Sargent, Tuke, and their contemporaries in
the Royal Academy. This volume treats paintings as eloquent
objects, no narratives of which are too elusive to be traced, and
challenges conventional binaries of masculine versus feminine or
heterosexual versus homosexual. Consulting not only the paintings
themselves but also newspapers, journals, criticism, novels, and
poetry of the day, Painted Men argues against the misconception of
British academic art as merely reactionary and even blind to the
dynamism of its own time. Instead, this art is shown to engage with
broader social attitudes and contemporary sexual debates. As the
book reveals the complexities of specific paintings, it illuminates
different and competing attitudes toward masculinity and modernity
in British art of the period.
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