GAENSHEIMER, Susanne; MALZ, Isabelle; KEMPKES, Anke (eds.)
Queer Modernism / Queere Moderne

Experimenting with alternative lifestyles is reflected in new visual languages, perspectives, and a different aesthetic. “Modern utopias of abolishing the gender binary,” “Queer avant-gardes” and “The potential in queer readings of abstraction” are only some of the compelling topics presented in this volume, which also recounts the history of queer lives during war, persecution, and resistance.

With artists Richmond Barthé, Rosa Bonheur, Romaine Brooks, Til Brugman, Paul Cadmus, Claude Cahun, Jean Cocteau, Ithell Colquhoun, Nils Dardel, Beauford Delaney, Leonor Fini, Loïe Fuller, Gluck, Duncan Grant, Jacoba van Heemskerck, Hannah Höch, Ludwig von Hofmann, Robin Ironside, Louise Janin, Lotte Laserstein, Marie Laurencin, Jeanne Mammen, Marcel Moore, Marlow Moss, Milena Pavlovic´-Barili, Glyn Warren Philpot, George Platt Lynes, Anton Prinner, Sonja Sekula, Pavel Tchelitchew, Toyen, Henry Scott Tuke, Dame Ethel Walker, Gerda Wegener.

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Published by Hirmer Verlag / Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, 2025
Exhibition Catalogues / Queer Culture / Art History