A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-siècle Art
- ISBN-10
- 0271036222
- ISBN-13
- 9780271036229
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 324
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penn State Press
- Authors
- John Singer Sargent, Alison Mairi Syme
Description
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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