This book is not a panegyric of homosexuality. It is a scientific study led by Professor James Smalls who teaches art story. His works examines the process of creation and allows one to comprehend the contribution of homosexuality to the evolution of emotional perception. In a time when all barriers have been overcome, this analysis offers a new understanding of our civilisation's masterpieces.
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James Smalls. Gay Art
Introduction
Chapter 1 – Homosexuality in Western Antiquity (from Ancient Greece to the Roman Empire)
Chapter 2 – Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Chapter 3 – Homosexuality in the Italian Renaissance
Chapter 4 – Homosexuality in the Art of The Non-Western World (Asia and Islam)
Chapter 5–1700–1900: Towards a Homosexual Identity
Chapter 6 – Homosexuality in the Art of Modernism and Postmodernism (1900–2000)
I. From Modernism to Stonewall (1900–1969)
II. From Stonewall to Postmodernism (post-1969)
Conclusion
Bibliography
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, The Musicians (detail), c. 1595.
Oil on canvas, 92.1 × 118.4 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis.
24. Circle of the Nikosthenes Painter, Satyr Scene, c. 5th century BC.
