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Gay Studies

Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed

by Robert Aldrich
February 2012, no. 338

Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed

Oxford University Press, $64.95 hb, 295 pp

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‘One would have to be extremely naïve not to know immediately upon entering his room what was what when one saw the decoration with its reproduction Greek statues of hermaphrodites, and its strange collection of pictures, each boasting a posterior, mixed with pictures of pretty young men from the local garrison which the talented dilettante has made himself and continues to make.’

 


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Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas by Christopher Reed

Oxford University Press, $64.95 hb, 295 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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