Outlooks Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures [Paperback]

Outlookexplores 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.Emmanuel Cooperon Francis Bacon. Richard Dellamoraon Warhol and postmodernism. Sunil Guptaon race and queer ar. Richard Kayeon the gay icon of St Sebastian. Wendy Leekson Ingres and the lesbian viewer. Reina Lewisand Katrina Rolleyon lesbians and the fashion spread. Thais Morganon lesbianism and nineteenth century aestheticism. Carl Stychinon the censorship of lesbian and gay art. Simon Watneyon the visual poetics of mourning.