In celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month!
This book showcases a selection of works that illustrate the breadth and depth of queer art from around the world. Exploring identity, eroticism, relationships, hidden desires, love, and gender through drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and film, it tells the story of queer art from 1900 to the present, revealing how artists’ experiences have been shaped by class and ethnicity, as well as how art itself has played a key role in changing attitudes and crystalizing identities. Each work is accompanied with a short text explaining its wider social and cultural context, and what 'queer' means in these differing historic and contemporary contexts. A Queer Little History of Art includes works from a variety of artists - among them Egon Schiele, Duncan Grant, Romaine Brooks, Edward Burra, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, Diane Arbus, Francis Bacon, Bhupen Khakhar, Zanele Muholi, Allyson Mitchell, and Tomoko Kashiki - all of whom found new freedom in radical ideas and new art forms., The publication is a celebration of more than 100 years of queer art, as well as the LGBT community that has embraced it. – Summarized from Publisher’s note.
Image 1: Front cover Description: Black and white photo of two people embracing.
Image 2: “Man in Shower in Beverly Hills,” 1964 by David Hockney Description: Painting of a man taking a shower. Three large leaves of a plant are seen in the foreground, a naked man is bending with his back to the viewers in the middle ground, and grey tiles on the background.
Image 3: “Moon V” (Lunar V), 1973 by Zilia Sánchez Description: Acrylic paint stretched over canvas. Two white half sphere shapes meet in the center in a diagonal positioning against a pale blue background.
A queer little history of art Pilcher, Alex [author] London : Tate Publishing, 2017. 160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm English 2017 HOLLIS number: 990150737990203941
