Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy

Valerie Hedquist author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:2nd Aug '19

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Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy cover

The reception of Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in contradictory characterizations of the painted youth as an aristocrat or a "regular fellow," as masculine or feminine, or as heterosexual or gay. In private and public spaces where viewers saw the actual painting and where living and rendered replicas circulated, Gainsborough’s painting was often the centerpiece where dominant and subordinate classes met, gender identities were enacted, and sexuality was implicitly or overtly expressed.

ISBN: 9781138543423

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 622g

202 pages