Queer Modernism: 1900-1950

Dazzling, erotic, groundbreaking—the queer alternative history of modernism.

Desire, eroticism, playing with gender—these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to the creative process, but rather as foundational. By approaching the art through a perspective of queer aesthetics, the aim is to discover the visual worlds of hitherto little-known figures of international modernism, from Eastern and Western Europe and North and South America.

This volume refl...