Images of Ambiente: Homotextuality and Latin American Art, 1810-today

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A&C Black, Oct 27, 2000 - Art - 244 pages
The gay cultures of Latin America expressed themselves in a variety of ways artistically, from the early 19th century to the present. "Images of Ambiente" traces the development of such art and reflects the backlash against gay American influences.
 

Contents

Modernism and the new politics of masculinity
57
Postwar figurations of homosocial eros
89
Postmodern visions of el ambiente
117
Queer visions of Latinoa exile
171
Epilogue
227
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Rudi C. Bleys is an independent scholar and co-editor of "Vlaanderen en Latijns Ameriks." He is the author of "The Geography of Perversion: Male to Male Sexual Behabior and the Ethnographuc Imagination, 1750-1918."

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