{"product_id":"hideseek-jonathan-d-katz-9781588342997","title":"Hide\/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entirely new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHide\/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture\u003c\/i\u003e, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, \u003ci\u003eHide\/Seek\u003c\/i\u003e openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHide\/Seek\u003c\/i\u003e shows how questions of gender and sexual identity dramatically shaped the artistic practices of influential American artists such as Thomas Eakins, Romaine Brooks, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more--in addition to artists of more recent works such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, and Cass Bird. The authors argue that despite the late-nineteenth-century definition and legal codification of the \"homosexual,\" in reality, questions of sexuality always remained fluid and continually redefined by artists concerned with the act of portrayal. In particular, gay and lesbian artists--of but not fully in the society they portrayed--occupied a position of influential marginality, from which vantage point they crafted innovative and revolutionary ways of painting portraits. Their resistance to society's attempt to proscribe them forced them to develop new visual vocabularies by which to code, disguise, and thereby express their subjects' identities--and also their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together for the first time new scholarship in the history of American sexuality and new research in American portraiture, \u003ci\u003eHide\/Seek\u003c\/i\u003e charts the heretofore hidden impact of gay and lesbian artists on American art and portraiture and creates the basis for the necessary reassessment of the careers of major American artists--both gay and straight--as well as of portraiture itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan D. Katz, David C. Ward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1588342999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781588342997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Smithsonian Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.22h x 9.42w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2010 pg. 107\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/17\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011 pg. 202","brand":"Jonathan D. Katz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080683319551,"sku":"9781588342997","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e135574-4f53-4469-8a9d-18d33115f89b.jpg?v=1685488213","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hideseek-jonathan-d-katz-9781588342997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}