| Description |
295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm |
| Note |
Companion volume to the exhibition of the same name opening at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, October 2010. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference. This companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, Hide/Seek openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
Hide/seek: difference and desire in American portraiture / Jonathan Katz -- Catalogue / David C. Ward -- Before difference, 1870-1918 -- New geographies/new identities -- Abstraction -- Postwar America: accommodation and resistance -- Stonewall and more modern identities -- Postmodernism. |
| Subject |
Portraits, American -- Exhibitions.
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Sex customs in art -- Exhibitions.
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Sex symbolism -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Ward, David C., 1952-
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Sichel, Jennifer.
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National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
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Smithsonian Books (Publisher)
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| Added Title |
Difference and desire in American portraiture |
| ISBN |
9781588342997 hardcover |
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1588342999 hardcover |
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