Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough?s Blue Boy

Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Thomas Gainsborough?s Blue Boy

 
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Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN13:9781032401317
ISBN10:1032401311
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:228 pages
Size:246x174 mm
Weight:376 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 32 Illustrations, black & white; 16 Illustrations, color
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Short description:

This book considers the historical reception of Thomas Gainsborough?s Blue Boy (c. 1770) from its creation to manifestations of its image in contemporary art and visual culture.

Long description:

The reception of Thomas Gainsborough?s Blue Boy from its origins to its appearances in contemporary visual culture reveals how its popularity was achieved and maintained by diverse audiences and in varied venues. Performative manifestations resulted in contradictory characterizations of the painted youth as an aristocrat or a "regular fellow," as masculine or feminine, or as heterosexual or gay. In private and public spaces where viewers saw the actual painting and where living and rendered replicas circulated, Gainsborough?s painting was often the centerpiece where dominant and subordinate classes met, gender identities were enacted, and sexuality was implicitly or overtly expressed.

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1 Private Beginnings, Public Performances; Chapter 2 The Blue Boy from Gainsborough?s Showroom to Grosvenor?s Picture Gallery; Chapter 3 Public Recognition; Chapter 4 Reproducing The Blue Boy; Chapter 5 Farewell to England; Chapter 6 Welcome to America; Chapter 7 Changing Roles for The Blue Boy; Conclusion