Cover -- Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Re-Framed-Inscribing Lesbian, Gay and Queer Presences in Visual Culture -- Part I: Queering Art History -- Chapter One: Queer Spectacles -- Chapter Two: Absent Bodies/Absent Subjects: The Political Unconscious of Postmodernism -- Chapter Three: Out of the Maid's Room: Dora, Stratonice and the Lesbian Analyst -- Chapter Four: Perverse Male Bodies: Simeon Solomon and Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Chapter Five: Losing His Religion: Saint Sebastian as Contemporary Gay Martyr -- Part II: Practitioners' Statements -- Chapter Six: Dyke! Fag! Centurion! Whore! an Appreciation of Tessa Boffin -- Chapter Seven: The Art of Accompaniment -- Chapter Eight: Lesbian Artist? -- Chapter Nine: Negotiating Genres -- Chapter Ten: Rough Trade: Notes Towards Sharing Mascara -- Chapter Eleven: The Aura of Timelessness -- Part III: Production and Consumption -- Chapter Twelve: Promoting a Sexuality: Law and Lesbian and Gay Visual Culture in America -- Chapter Thirteen: These Waves of Dying Friends: Gay Men, Aids, and Multiple Loss -- Chapter Fourteen: Culture Wars: Race and Queer Art -- Chapter Fifteen: Ad(Dressing) the Dyke: Lesbian Looks and Lesbians Looking -- Index.

Outlook explores 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.

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