Brushes, Burins, and Flesh
2016; University of California Press; Volume: 134; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/rep.2016.134.1.1
ISSN1533-855X
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Culture Studies
ResumoThis essay examines the erotic works produced collaboratively by members of Karel van Mander’s so-called “Haarlem Academy” to suggest that early modern art making created a space in which slippages could occur between homosocial relationships and homoerotic practices. Hierarchical power relations inherent to collaboration, and to early-modern precursors to formalized academies, facilitated these dynamics because they structurally replicated essential conditions of homoerotic relationships. In turn, the piece proposes ways in which formal readings of works coupled with the interrogation of collaborative artistic production can help explore how works of art do more than index homoerotic relationships and, instead, instantiate them.
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