Full Description
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.
Contents
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
