Speaking for vice : homosexuality in the art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the first American avant-garde /

This book explores the representation of male homosexuality in American art in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the work of Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, it uncovers the sexual codes and references in their art and explores how the two men reconciled their production of a s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weinberg, Jonathan, 1957- (Author)
Other Authors: Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1993]
Series:Yale publications in the history of art.
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Table of Contents:
  • Who is a homosexual?
  • The homosexual point of view
  • Charles Demuth and "some unknown thing"
  • Illustrating difference
  • Demuth's erotic watercolors
  • Numbering the dead
  • German warriors
  • Hartley's late paintings
  • Coming home: homosexuality and the American avant-garde.