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Male Bodies Unmade

Picturing Queer Selfhood

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:12th Dec '23

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Male Bodies Unmade explores white men’s disunified physicality in modern and contemporary art while attending to erotic polysemy that questions the visual ethos of Occidental patriarchy. Art historian Jongwoo Jeremy Kim's approach is informed by his own status as an immigrant—a polyglot queen, drawn to extravagant fantasies of misbehaving bodies that are in truth foreign territories, colonies of misbelief. In six case studies focusing on configurations of irrational anatomy and horny self-extinction, this book celebrates the lessons and pleasures of disrupting art history’s hegemonically Western narratives.

ISBN: 9780520392588

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm

Weight: 862g

264 pages