Author : Valerie Hedquist
Release : 2019-07-08
Genre : Art
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Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy write by Valerie Hedquist. This book was released on 2019-07-08. Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reception of Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in contradictory characterizations of the painted youth as an aristocrat or a "regular fellow," as masculine or feminine, or as heterosexual or gay. In private and public spaces where viewers saw the actual painting and where living and rendered replicas circulated, Gainsborough’s painting was often the centerpiece where dominant and subordinate classes met, gender identities were enacted, and sexuality was implicitly or overtly expressed.