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  • Lesbian Decadence

    Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France

    by Nicole Albert ...
    Translated by Nancy Erber, William Peniston ...
    In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lesbian Decadence

    Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France

    by Nicole Albert ...
    Translated by Nancy Erber, William Peniston ...
    In 1857 the French poet Charles Baudelaire, who was fascinated by lesbianism, created a scandal with Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil]. This collection was originally entitled "The Lesbians" and described women as "femmes damnées," with "disordered souls" suffering in a hypocritical world. Then twenty years later, lesbians in Paris dared to flaunt themselves in that extraordinarily creative ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Homoerotics of Orientalism

    by Joseph Boone ...
    One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism.To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and ... Read more

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  • 149 Paintings You Really Should See in Europe — Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic

    by Julian Porter ...
    This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of Russia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide in Europe. In this segment he visits St. Petersburg, Krakow, and Prague and discusses works ... Read more

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  • Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

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    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much ... Read more

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  • Art Is Not What You Think It Is

    by Donald Preziosi, Claire Farago ...
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    Art Is Not What You Think It Is utilizes original research to present a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of art, making manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions.Links museology, history, theory, and criticism to the realities of contemporary social conditions and shows how they have structurally functioned in a variety of ... Read more

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  • The Elgin Affair

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