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A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siecle Art Syme, Alison (Toronto)
A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siecle Art
Syme, Alison (Toronto)
Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism.
black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illustrations, fr
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 8, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780271036229 |
| Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Pages | 340 |
| Dimensions | 242 × 263 × 28 mm · 1.60 kg |