Male Bodies Unmade

Picturing Queer Selfhood

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39258-8 (ISBN)

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Male Bodies Unmade explores white men’s disunified physicality in modern and contemporary art while attending to erotic polysemy that questions the visual ethos of Occidental patriarchy. Art historian Jongwoo Jeremy Kim's approach is informed by his own status as an immigrant—a polyglot queen, drawn to extravagant fantasies of misbehaving bodies that are in truth foreign territories, colonies of misbelief. In six case studies focusing on configurations of irrational anatomy and horny self-extinction, this book celebrates the lessons and pleasures of disrupting art history’s hegemonically Western narratives.

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: ME
1. Jean Cocteau: I Am Not One
2. David Hockney: The Missing Body Is in the Pool

PART II: NOT ME
3. Aubrey Beardsley: The Male Body Is Absurd
4. Francis Bacon: The Flesh Marks Limits of Knowing

PART III: ME . . . BITS
5. Robert Gober: Beeswax Time Machines Will Melt
Conclusion

Postscript (or the Hanging-On with a Safety Pin): Andrew Ahn—A
K-Town Bathhouse Boy Is Me/Not Me

Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	60 color images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	862 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-520-39258-2 / 0520392582
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39258-8 / 9780520392588
Zustand	Neuware