A Touch of Blossom John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art |
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| Author:
| Syme, Alison |
| ISBN: | 978-0-271-03622-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $103.95 |
Book Description:
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Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism.
Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism.