Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe - Paperback
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Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe
What role does desire play in the making of art objects? Art historians typically answer this question by referring to historical evidence about an artist's sexual identity or to particular kinds of imagery. But what about anonymous artists? Or works whose subject matter is mainstream?
We know little about the identities and personalities of most premodern artists, but this should not hold us back...
Karl Whittington is Professor of History of Art at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination and Trecento Pictoriality: Diagrammatic Painting in Late Medieval Italy.
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