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Summary: An Award Winning Masterpiece
Review: A gorgeous coffee table book covering the scope of gay and lesbian history in the visual arts. By far the best book on the subject, it is insightful, comprehensive, and features crisp reproductions of nearly every significant work of visual art pertaining to the topic.Winner of a Lambda Literary Award.My highest recommendation.
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Summary: Decadence and beauty
Review: I thought the book was excellent! It makes a gorgeous volume in an aesthete's library, the descriptions are useful and it is highly recomendable for art historians who want to know more about the vast taboo behind these magnanimuos paintings.
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Summary: Skip this one
Review: The cover of this book is very enticing but in reality, most of the book is pictures of statues and artists drawings. If you are an art historian, or student of art, this might be the book for you. However, if you were looking for a book with a mix of contemporary and historical photographs (which the cover gives that impression), you will be disappointed. The book is supposedly devoted to Homosexual art, however, many of the artists detictions of ancient art are of hetrosexual relations. NOT RECOMMENDED for the general public but serves a useful purpose for the academic art world. The only positive thing I can say about this book is that the narratives that accompany the drawings and pictures are well written. I personally am exercising my satisfaction guarantee with AMAZON and sending this one back.
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Summary: Nice pictures
Review: This is a large and impressive coffee-table book. The artwork is reproduced in fine images, many in full page size. Unfortunately, the text is no where near as good. The author's opinions are neither well-researched nor documented. There is an abundance of proclaimations that have no basis. If you are looking for an intelligent and scholarly work on the representation of homosexuality in the history of art, then you should skip this book. Buy it for the pictures, not for the text.
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Summary: Nice pictures
Review: This is a large and impressive coffee-table book. The artwork is reproduced in fine images, many in full page size. Unfortunately, the text is no where near as good. The author's opinions are neither well-researched nor documented. There is an abundance of proclaimations that have no basis. If you are looking for an intelligent and scholarly work on the representation of homosexuality in the history of art, then you should skip this book. Buy it for the pictures, not for the text.
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