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Male Bodies Unmade

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Male Bodies Unmade explores white men’s disunified physicality in modern and contemporary art while attending to erotic polysemy that questions the visual ethos of Occidental patriarchy. Art histor...
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Male Bodies Unmade explores white men’s disunified physicality in modern and contemporary art while attending to erotic polysemy that questions the visual ethos of Occidental patriarchy. Art historian Jongwoo Jeremy Kim's approach is informed by his own status as an immigrant—a polyglot queen, drawn to extravagant fantasies of misbehaving bodies that are in truth foreign territories, colonies of misbelief. In six case studies focusing on configurations of irrational anatomy and horny self-extinction, this book celebrates the lessons and pleasures of disrupting art history’s hegemonically Western narratives.
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Price: $50.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 14 November 2023
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780520392588
Format: Hardcover
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Jongwoo Jeremy Kim is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities.
Contents

Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

PART I: ME
1. Jean Cocteau: I Am Not One 
2. David Hockney: The Missing Body Is in the Pool 

PART II: NOT ME
3. Aubrey Beardsley: The Male Body Is Absurd 
4. Francis Bacon: The Flesh Marks Limits of Knowing 

PART III: ME . . . BITS
5. Robert Gober: Beeswax Time Machines Will Melt 
Conclusion 

Postscript (or the Hanging-On with a Safety Pin): Andrew Ahn—A
K-Town Bathhouse Boy Is Me/Not Me 

Notes 
Bibliography 
List of Illustrations 
Index