Other Objects of Desire Collectors and Collecting Queerly

by Camille, Michael; Rifkin, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780631233619
• ISBN10: 063123361X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Other Objects of Desire; Collectors and Collecting Queerly explores gay identities and identifications as they are communicated in and through art, and provides a critical approach to the study of collectors and collecting. From Jean de Berry to the internet addict, from Christina of Sweden to Andy Warhol, this collection of essays sets about questioning the terms and methodologies of gay or queer historical studies and the very nature and definition of collecting. Richly illustrated, scholarly and bold, this anthology respresents the work of both young and established Art Historians in trenchant, original and groundbreaking style.

Author Biography

Michael Camille is Mary J. Block Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago.

Adrian Rifkin is Professor of Visual Culture and Media at Middlesex University.

The editors have both published widely in art history and visual culture, and have contributed significantly to current discourses in gay and queer theory and dialogues and debates about sexuality.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	1	(6)
Michael Camille
`For Our Devotion and Pleasure': The sexual objects of Jean, Duc de Berry	7	(26)
Michael Camille
Desiring Things	33	(18)
Rebecca Zorach
The Virtue of a King and the Desire of a Woman? Mythological representations in the collection of Queen Christina	51	(18)
Veronica Biermann
Absent Love in Pleasure Houses. Frederick II of Prussia as art collector and patron	69	(16)
Christoph Martin Vogtherr
Homoerotic Art Collection from 1750 to 1920	85	(31)
Whitney Davis
Shopping the Leftovers: Warhol's collecting strategies in Raid the Icebox I	116	(14)
Deborah Bright
Mapplethorpe's Living Room: Photography and the furnishing of desire	130	(20)
Richard Meyer
Collecting men, or my next duchess	150	(6)
Adrian Rifkin
Index	156