Freak to Chic

"Gay" Men in and out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde

AvDominic Janes

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, ‘gay’ life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the worlds of glamour, fashion, art and countercultural style provided rich opportunities for the construction of queer spectacle in London. Inspired by the legacies of Oscar Wilde, interwar and later 20th-century men such as Cecil Beaton expressed transgressive desires in forms inspired by those labelled ‘freaks’ and, thereby, made major contributions to the histories of art, design, fashion, sexuality, and celebrity.Janes reinterprets the origins of gay and queer cultures by charting the interactions between marginalized freaks and chic fashionistas. He establishes a new framework for future analyses of other cities and media, and of the roles of women and diverse identities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-23
Mått:154 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt:480 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350248083

Utforska kategorier

HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik
Modedesign och textilformgivning inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Dominic Janes is Professor of Modern History at Keele University, UK. He is a cultural historian whose specialism is the study of texts and visual images relating to Britain in its local and international contexts since the eighteenth century. He also teaches and researches on the wider histories of gender, sexuality and religion and is Professorial Fellow in the School of Fine Art and Photography, University for the Creative Arts, UK.

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Clearly the product of long hours in the archives, Dominic Janes’ Freak to Chic offers a rich array of queer images and texts from the popular press of the first half of the twentieth century to document the creative variety of non-normative embodiments of sex and gender in an era before now-accepted identity labels.

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: In Search of Lost Times2. Freak ShowsDecline and Fall3. Freaks in VogueGeorge, Georgie, Georgino Mio4. Bright Young ThingsFreak PartiesThe Uprise of Cecil Beaton5. DivasMariegold in Society6. The Floral ClosetPansiesOpen for Trade7. ConclusionsOscar Wilde RevampedBibliographyIndex

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