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.
About the AuthorJongwoo Jeremy Kim is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in Art History and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of
Painted Men in Britain, 1868-1918: Royal Academicians and Masculinities.Book InformationISBN 9780520392588
Author Jongwoo Jeremy KimFormat Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint University of California PressPublisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 862g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 20mm