A touch of blossom : John Singer Sargent and the queer flora of fin-de-siècle art

"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&quo...

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Main Author: Syme, Alison (Author)
Other Authors: Sargent, John Singer (Illustrator)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2010
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Author Notes:Alison Syme
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The birds and the bees
  • La vie en rose
  • Lascivious digitation, or The importance of manual stimulation to the invert artist
  • Dr. Octogynecologist
  • Portrait of the artist as a young ladybird
  • The sting
  • Conclusion. Leaf taking.