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Submerged: On Sexuality and American Art
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Lecture Date: | 2010-11-02 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-10-26 |
| Announcement ID: |
180058 |
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Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
5.30 - 6.30pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Richard Meyer (Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, University of Southern California)
Submerged: On Sexuality and American Art
Writing sexuality into the history of art means redrawing the boundaries of what counts both as art and as history. If Americanists have been at the forefront of this task, this is not to say that their work has been warmly received or openly supported within the broader reaches of the discipline. This paper argues for an expanded field of sexuality in the scholarly study of nineteenth and twentieth-century American art. Taking the life, work, and (contested) reception of the photographer Alice Austen as a case study, it traces a dialectic between visibility and suppression as formative of art-historical knowledge. Richard Meyer’s talk concludes with a discussion of the constraints and challenges posed by a recently completed book project titled Art and Queer Culture, 1885-present, a survey text co-edited with the lesbian artist and critic Catherine Lord. The unequal visibility of male and female homoeroticism within American art (and the ethical and interpretive questions that follow from it) will be addressed in some detail.
Open to all, free admission
Organised by Professors Caroline Arscott and Mignon Nixon
Richard Meyer is Terra Foundation for American Art Visiting Professor at The Courtauld in autumn 2010. This Visiting Professorship has been made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art www.terraamericanart.org
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