Cruising for a Bruising: Heterosexual Male-artists Creating Queer Art

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angličtina
Original language name
Cruising for a Bruising: Heterosexual Male-artists Creating Queer Art
Original language description
Milos Jiranek (1875?1911) presented his painting Showers in the Sokol, Prague. The ?homoerotic scandal? aroused by this image was incredible and the painting was withdrawn from the show. Jiranek s friend, theorist and critic William Ritter, who was quiteopenly homosexual, was exited about the homoerotic reception. However, this interpretation was not intentional at all, Jiranek, as far as we know, was just an ignorant heterosexual man with no interest or influences with homoerotic or queer imagery. In1914, Czech poet, writer and collector Jiri Karasek ze Lvovic, who was an author of several openly queer novels and mentor of homosexual community in Prague, met Polish painter Wlastimil Hofman. As the documents say, happily married Hofman started to paint homoerotic paintings for Karasek s collection and they were shown mostly in Karasek s homosocial circle. Most of the contributors of drawings and reproductions in inter-war Czech queer magazine Hlas (Voice) were heterosexual as well, e
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Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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