Clare Barlow
Softcover | 19 x 1.9 x 24.5 cm | 176 pp
Tate Publishing | 2017 | 9781849764520
The first publication on queer art to focus on a dramatic century of social and artistic change in Britain. Published to accompany the Tate exhibition in 2017.
Ranging from the playful to the political, the explicit to the domestic, these works reveal the rich diversity of queer British art. This beautiful book explores coded desires in aestheticism; the impact of the new science of sexology; queer domesticities; eroticism in the artist s studio; intersections of gender and sexuality; seedy dives and visions of Arcadia; and love and lust in sixties Soho. Featuring works by major artists such as Simeon Solomon, Clare Atwood, Ethel Sands, Duncan Grant, Francis Bacon and David Hockney among others, Queer British Art pays homage to the wealth of queer creativity in Britain between the 1860s and the 1960s.