Research Catalog

Title

Masculinities : liberation through photography / edited by Alona Pardo.

Publication

• Münich, Germany ; New York, New York : Prestel, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pardo, Alona
• Barbican Art Gallery, host institution.
• Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany), host institution.
• Rencontres internationales de la photographie (2020 : Arles, France), sponsoring body.

Description

319 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 32 cm

Summary

This photographic exploration draws together the work of approximately fifty artists of different ethnicities, generations, and gender identities to look at how ideas of masculinity have evolved since the 1960s. Each of its six themed chapters features bold and arresting work by artists such as Richard Avedon, John Coplans, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Collier Schorr, Larry Sultan, Wolfgang Tillmans, and David Wojnarowicz, who are all renowned for their depictions of masculinity and its tropes. Others, including Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Masahisa Fukase, Adi Nes, Hank Willis Thomas, and Akram Zaatari, offer ethnically and culturally diverse perspectives. A number of female artists--Laurie Anderson, Annette Messager, Tracey Moffatt, and Marianne Wex--explore the uncomfortable and invasive nature of the male gaze and younger artists such as Sam Contis, Andrew Moisey, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Elle Pérez, offer a 21st-century perspective of maleness through the lens of identity and global politics. Each chapter in the book opens with an essay by a key thinker in the fields of art, history, culture, and queer studies. Spanning decades and continents, this exploration shows how increasingly difficult it is to define masculinity. Exhibition: Barbican Centre, London, UK (20.02.-17.05.2020).

Subject

• Photography of men > Exhibitions
• Masculinity in art > Exhibitions
• Masculinity in art
• Photography of men

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery 20 February-17 May 2020; Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles. 29 June - 20 September 2020; Gropius-Bau, Berlin. 16 October 2020 - 10 January 2021--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 311).

Contents

Performing masculinities / Alona Pardo -- Looking at men and masculinity: popular discourse, cultural narratives and the limits of gender / Chris Haywood -- Taking back control? Photography and fantasies of male order / Edwin Coomasaru -- Too close to home: memorializing masculinity / Tim Clark -- Queering masculinity / Jonathan D. Katz -- Way of seeing: African portraiture looks back at the imperial eye / Ekow Eshun -- Disrupting the archetype -- Male order: power, patriarchy and space -- Too close to home: family and fatherhood -- Queering masculinity -- Reclaiming the black body -- Women on men: reversing the male gaze.

Call Number

JQG 21-325

ISBN

• 3791359517
• 9783791359519

OCLC

1105148645

Title

Masculinities : liberation through photography / edited by Alona Pardo.

Publisher

Münich, Germany ; New York, New York : Prestel, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 311).

Added Author

Pardo, Alona, editor.

Barbican Art Gallery, host institution.

Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany), host institution.

Rencontres internationales de la photographie (2020 : Arles, France), sponsoring body.

Research Call Number

JQG 21-325