Christopher Reed Publishes on Art & Homosexuality
by
Daniel Tripp
— Posted
Jul 21, 2011 12:53 PM
Our ideas about art and about sexual identity, he shows, are of relatively recent origin and closely intertwined.
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Christopher Reed, Professor of English and Visual Culture, has published a book with the straightforward title Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas (Oxford University Press). The title encapsulates the argument of the book: that both our ideas about art and about sexual identity are of relatively recent origin and closely intertwined. Reed’s book draws on a wide range of visual and textual sources, and includes “illustrations” of both images and passages from books. For an interview with Reed about the book, see http://blog.oup.com/2011/06/christopher-reed/
