Synopses & Reviews
Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles such burning issues as the advantage of adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual art.
This volume provides a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality. It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbian and gay men within visual cultures and shows how much has been missed by a heterosexist approach to art history and the study of culture.
Richly illustrated, this book includes statements by contemporary lesbian and gay artists, photographers and performers as well as articles by art historians, cultural theorists and lesbians and gay activists.
Table of Contents
Introduction : re-framed : inscribing lesbian, gay and queer presences in visual culture / Peter Horne and Reina Lewis -- Queer spectacles / Emmanuel Cooper -- Absent bodies/absent subjects : the political unconscious of postmodernism / Richard Dellamora -- Out of the maid's room : Dora, Stratonice and the lesbian analyst / Wendy Leeks -- Perverse male bodies : Simeon Solomon and Algernon Charles Swinburne / Thaâis E. Morgan -- Losing his religion : Saint Sebastion as contemporary gay martyr / Richard A. Kaye -- Dyke! Fag! Centurion! Whore! An appreciation of Tessa Boffin / Cheery Smyth -- The art of accompaniment / Robert Farber -- Lesbian artist? / Sadie Lee -- Negotiating genres / Veronica Slater -- Rough trade : notes towards sharing mascara / Lawrence Steger and Iris Moore -- The aura of timelessness / Matthew Stradling -- Promoting a sexuality : law and lesbian and gay visual culture in America / Carl F. Stychin -- These waves of dying friends : gay men, AIDS, and multiple loss / Simon Watney -- Culture wars : race and queer art / Sunil Gupta -- Ad(dressing) the dyke : lesbian looks and lesbians looking / Reina Lewis and Katrina Rolley.